Intracellular mycoplasma genitalium infection of human vaginal and cervical epithelial cells elicits distinct patterns of inflammatory cytokine secretion and provides a possible survival niche against macrophage-mediated killing

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  McGowin, Chris L ^a   Popov, Vsevolod L ^a   Pyles, Richard B ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; PROTEINASE K; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL KILLING; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DENATURATION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERINE CERVIX EPITHELIUM; VAGINA EPITHELIUM; VAGINITIS; VIRUS REPLICATION; CELL CULTURE; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UTERINE CERVIX; VAGINA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM;

CELLS, CULTURED; CERVIX UTERI; CYTOKINES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MACROPHAGES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; VAGINA;

EID: 68549135025     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-9-139     Document Type: Article

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