Pure CD4+ T lymphocytes fail to protect perorally infected SCID mice from lethal microsporidiosis caused by Encephalitozoon cuniculi

Parasitology Research

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 682-686

  Salát, Jiří ^a,b   Horká, Helena ^a,b   Sak, Bohumil ^a,b   Kopecký, Jan ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; HOST RESISTANCE; LETHALITY; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE; SURVIVAL TIME; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOUTH; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY;

ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI;

EID: 33749434074     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0208-x     Document Type: Article

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