The thymus as a target for mycobacterial infections

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 14-15, 2007, Pages 1521-1529

  Nobrega, Claudia ^a,b   Cardona, Pere Joan ^c   Roque, Susana ^a,d   Pinto do Ó, Perpétua ^a   Appelberg, Rui ^a,b   Correia Neves, Margarida ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

BCG; Mycobacterium avium; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; T lymphocytes; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIVER; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 36749031173     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2007.08.006     Document Type: Article

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