Brucella abortus uses a stealthy strategy to avoid activation of the innate immune system during the onset of infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Barquero Calvo, Elías ^a   Chaves Olarte, Esteban ^a,b   Weiss, David S ^c   Guzmán Verri, Caterina ^a   Chacón Díaz, Carlos ^a,b   Rucavado, Alexandra ^b   Moriyón, Ignacio ^d   Moreno, Edgardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GLUCAN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; BLOOD CLOTTING; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; MUS;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD COAGULATION; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LEUKOCYTES; MICE; NEUTROPHILS; PLATELET AGGREGATION; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 36348952228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000631     Document Type: Article

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