Different meningitis-causing bacteria induce distinct inflammatory responses on interaction with cells of the human meninges

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 555-567

  Fowler, Mark I ^a,b   Weller, Roy O ^a   Heckels, John E ^a   Christodoulides, Myron ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; RANTES;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CELL DEATH; CELL INTERACTION; CELL INVASION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE COURSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LEPTOMENINX; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; CELL DEATH; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHEMOKINE CCL2; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYTOKINES; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; MENINGES; MENINGIOMA; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; RANTES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 2442417825     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2004.00382.x     Document Type: Article

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