Mechanisms of Immunity to Ehrlichia mutis: A Model of Monocytotropic Ehrlichiosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 966-971

  Feng, Hui Min ^a   Walker, David H ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA MURIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0842326280     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.2.966-971.2004     Document Type: Article

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