Critical role of myeloperoxidase and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-oxidase in high-burden systemic infection of mice with Candida albicans

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 185, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1833-1837

  Aratani, Yasuaki ^a   Kura, Fumiaki ^b   Watanabe, Haruo ^b   Akagawa, Hisayoshi ^b   Takano, Yukie ^b   Suzuki, Kazuo ^b   Dinauer, Mary C ^c   Maeda, Nobuyo ^d   Koyama, Hideki ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c RILEY HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELOPEROXIDASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; HOST RESISTANCE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

ANIMALS; CANDIDIASIS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE, CHRONIC; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NADPH OXIDASE; PEROXIDASE; PHAGOCYTES;

EID: 0037097791     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/340635     Document Type: Article

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