Clearance of virulent but not avirulent Rhodococcus equi from the lungs of adult horses is associated with intracytoplasmic gamma interferon production by CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 208-215

  Hines, Stephen A ^a   Stone, Diana M ^a   Hines, Melissa T ^a   Alperin, Debby C ^a   Knowles, Donald P ^a,b   Norton, Linda K ^a   Hamilton, Mary J ^a   Davis, William C ^a   McGuire, Travis C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOWN REGULATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOMODULATION; LUNG; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTOPOIESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROVOCATION TEST; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD2; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOPLASM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INTERFERON TYPE II; PLASMIDS; PNEUMONIA; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0037338614     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.10.2.208-215.2003     Document Type: Article

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