Effects of Total Body Irradiation and Cyclosporin A on the Lethality of Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin-1 in a Rabbit Model of Toxic Shock Syndrome

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 188, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1142-1145

  Dinges, Martin M ^a,b   Gregerson, Dale S ^a   Tripp, Timothy J ^a   McCormick, John K ^a,c   Schlievert, Patrick M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CYCLOSPORIN A; MITOMYCIN C; POLYMYXIN B; SUPERANTIGEN; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXIN 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOMODULATION; LETHAL GENE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SPLEEN LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CYCLOSPORINE; ENTEROTOXINS; FEMALE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RABBITS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUPERANTIGENS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 0242332843     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378514     Document Type: Article

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