IL-10 and susceptibility to Coccidioides immitis infection

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 426-427

  Fierer, Joshua ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 10;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LETTER; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-10; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS;

EID: 33748710297     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2006.07.009     Document Type: Letter

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