Resistance of virulent Mycobacterium avium to gamma interferon-mediated antimicrobial activity suggests additional signals for induction of mycobacteriostasis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3610-3618

  Flórido, Manuela ^a   Gonçalves, Ana Sofia ^a   Silva, Regina A ^a   Ehlers, Stefan ^b   Cooper, Andrea M ^c   Appelberg, Rui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^c Immunology and Pathology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA REPLICATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOREGULATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 17344388183     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.7.3610-3618.1999     Document Type: Article

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