Reduced number of interleukin-12 secreting cells in patients with Lyme borreliosis previously exposed to Anaplasma phagocytophilum

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 322-328

  Jarefors, S ^a   Karlsson, M ^a   Forsberg, P ^a   Eliasson, I ^b   Ernerudh, J ^a   Ekerfelt, C ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KALMAR COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

HGE; Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis; Interleukin 12; Lyme disease; Tick borne

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELL COUNT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; TH1 CELL; ADOLESCENT; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GRANULOCYTE; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-13; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-5; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33644849065     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: 13652249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2005.02993.x     Document Type: Article

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