Complement induction and complement evasion in patients with cerebral aspergillosis

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 10, Issue 14-15, 2008, Pages 1567-1576

  Rambach, Günter ^a   Maier, Hans ^b   Vago, Gianluca ^c   Mohsenipour, Iradj ^a   Lass Flörl, Cornelia ^a   Defant, Alexandra ^a   Würzner, Reinhard ^a   Dierich, Manfred P ^a   Speth, Cornelia ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; Cerebral aspergillosis; Complement; Immune evasion

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN INFECTION; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNITY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ADULT; AGED; ASPERGILLUS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROASPERGILLOSIS;

ASPERGILLUS; FUNGI;

EID: 56949100642     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

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