An intradermal environment promotes a protective type-1 response against lethal systemic monocytotropic ehrlichial infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 4856-4864

  Stevenson, Heather L ^a   Jordan, Jeffrey M ^a   Peerwani, Ziad ^a,b   Wang, Hui Qun ^a   Walker, David H ^a   Ismail, Nahed ^a  

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

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION PREVENTION; IXODES; IXODES OVATUS; LETHALITY; LIVER CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TH1 CELL; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; IXODES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; TH1 CELLS;

EID: 33746617297     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00246-06     Document Type: Article

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