Clinical and immunologic features of an atypical intracranial Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection compared with those of pulmonary MAC infections

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1580-1589

  Sadek, Mouhannad ^b   Feng, Yun Yue ^a   Lee, Erika Yue ^a   Gyenes, Gabor ^a   Jones, R Brad ^a   Hoffstein, Victor ^b   Munoz, David G ^b   Fong, Ignatius ^b   Ostrowski, Mario ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 12; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; ALPHA INTERFERON; INTERFERON RECEPTOR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BRAIN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MONOCYTE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; HEAD; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

HEAD; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERFERON-ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN-12; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; RECEPTORS, INTERFERON; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 55449114313     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00173-08     Document Type: Article

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