Additive effect of P10 immunization and chemotherapy in anergic mice challenged intratracheally with virulent yeasts of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 10, Issue 12-13, 2008, Pages 1251-1258

  Marques, Alexandre F ^a   da Silva, Marcelo B ^a   Juliano, Maria A P ^b   Munhõz, Julian E ^a   Travassos, Luiz R ^b   Taborda, Carlos P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anergy; Chemotherapy; Dexamethasone; gp43; Immunization; P. brasiliensis; P10

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; FREUND ADJUVANT; ITRACONAZOLE; PROTEIN P10;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLONAL ANERGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG SYNERGISM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGAL VACCINES; GLYCOPROTEINS; IMMUNIZATION; ITRACONAZOLE; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; PEPTIDES; TRACHEA; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; VIRULENCE;

MUS; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 54849405310     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2008.07.027     Document Type: Article

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