Babesia: The protective effects of killed Propionibacterium acnes on the infections of two rodent Babesia parasites in mice

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 543-548

  Iseki, Hiroshi ^a   Takabatake, Noriyuki ^a   Ota, Naomi ^a   Ishigame, Takashi ^a   Yokoyama, Naoaki ^a   Igarashi, Ikuo ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

B. microti; B. rodhaini; Babesia microti; Babesia rodhaini; Cytokine; IFN ; IL; interferon; interleukin; Mice; P. acnes; Propionibacterium acnes; TNF ; tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

EQSTIM; IMMUNOSTIMULATING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE STATUS; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIA RODHAINI; MUS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; RODENTIA;

EID: 40649129468     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.11.006     Document Type: Article

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