Interactions between Brucella melitensis and human phagocytes: Bacterial surface O-polysaccharide inhibits phagocytosis, bacterial killing, and subsequent host cell apoptosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2110-2119

  Fernandez Prada, Carmen M ^a   Zelazowska, Elzbieta B ^a   Nikolich, Mikeljon ^a   Hadfield, Ted L ^b   Roop II, R Martin ^c,d   Robertson, Gregory L ^c   Hoover, David L ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNALIZATION; OPSONIZATION; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

APOPTOSIS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MONOCYTES; O ANTIGENS; OPSONIN PROTEINS; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

EID: 0037378134     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.4.2110-2119.2003     Document Type: Article

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