Rickettsial phospholipase a2 as a pathogenic mechanism in a model of cell injury by typhus and spotted fever group rickettsiae

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 936-942

  Walker, D H ^a   Feng, H M ^a   Popov, V L ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 BROMOPHENACYL BROMIDE; CHROMIUM 51; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SNAKE VENOM; VENOM ANTISERUM; 4-BROMOPHENACYL BROMIDE; ACETOPHENONE DERIVATIVE; ANTIBODY; ENZYME INHIBITOR; PHOSPHOLIPASE A;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CHROMIUM 51 RELEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEMOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; TYPHUS; VERO CELL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CERCOPITHECUS; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; OPHIOPHAGUS HANNAH; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIALES; SERPENTES; SPOTTED FEVER GROUP; TYPHUS GROUP;

ACETOPHENONES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIVENINS; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COBRA VENOMS; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE; VERO CELLS;

EID: 0035544036     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2001.65.936     Document Type: Article

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