Efficacy of gamma interferon and specific antibody for treatment of microsporidiosis caused by Encephalitozoon cuniculi in SCID mice

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2169-2174

  Salát, Jiří ^a,b   Jelínek, Jiří ^a   Chmelař, Jindřich ^a   Kopecký, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; PARASITE ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT GAMMA INTERFERON;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ADOLESCENT; ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; AIDS PATIENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE; SURVIVAL;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTERFERON TYPE II; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, SCID; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44449098088     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01506-07     Document Type: Article

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