Are B lymphocytes of importance in severe Staphylococcus aureus infections?

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2431-2434

  Gjertsson, Inger ^a   Hultgren, Olof Hörnquist ^a   Stenson, Martin ^a   Holmdahl, Rikard ^b   Tarkowski, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; STAPHYLOCOCCUS TOXIN;

AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GENE TARGETING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INOCULATION; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE II; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0034016941     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.5.2431-2434.2000     Document Type: Article

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