T cells mediate cross-protective immunity between spotted fever group rickettsiae and typhus group rickettsiae

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 190, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1221-1227

  Valbuena, Gustavo ^a,b   Jordan, Jeffrey M ^a   Walker, David H ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TYPHUS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CROSS REACTIONS; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 4644293408     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/423819     Document Type: Article

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