Abnormal immunological profile and vaginal microbiota in women prone to urinary tract infections

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-36

  Kirjavainen, Pirkka V ^a,b   Pautler, Stephen ^a   Baroja, Miren L ^a   Anukam, Kingsley ^a   Crowley, Kate ^a   Carter, Kristine ^a   Reid, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 17; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; LACTOBACILLUS; MONOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINA MUCOSA;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIA; BLOOD; CHEMOKINE CCL2; DENDRITIC CELLS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-12; LACTOBACILLUS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE; VAGINA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 58149392735     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00323-08     Document Type: Article

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