Exposure of BALB/c mice to low doses of Mycobacterium avium increases resistance to a subsequent high-dose infection

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 3173-3181

  Fattorini, Lanfranco ^a   Nisini, Robert ^a   Fan, Yuming ^a   Li, Yong Jun ^a   Tan, Dejiang ^a   Mariotti, Sabrina ^a   Teloni, Raffael ^a   Iona, Elisabetta ^a   Orefici, Graziella ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

BALB c nude mice; CD4+ T cells; Intradermal low dose exposure; Intranasal low dose exposure; Intraperitoneal low dose exposure

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MUS MUSCULUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036772148     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-10-3173     Document Type: Article

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