Both TLR2 and TLR4 are involved in the recognition of Candida albicans. Reply to "TLR2, but not TLR4, triggers cytokine production by murine cells in response to Candida albicans yeasts and hyphae" by Gil and Gozalbo, Microbes and Infection 8 (2006) 2823-2824

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 12-13, 2006, Pages 2821-2822

  Netea, Mihai G ^a   van der Meer, Jos W M ^a   Kullberg, Bart Jan ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNOPROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HOST RESISTANCE; LETTER; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CYTOKINES; HYPHAE; MICE; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; YEASTS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; MURINAE;

EID: 33750620826     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2006.07.021     Document Type: Letter

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