Modulation of cytokine response of pneumonic foals by virulent Rhodococcus equi

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 5041-5047

  Giguère, Steeve ^a,b   Wilkie, Bruce N ^a   Prescott, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; PROTEIN P40; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; HORSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPH NODE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0344199928     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.10.5041-5047.1999     Document Type: Article

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