Gr1+ cells control growth of YopM-negative Yersinia pestis during systemic plague

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3791-3806

  Ye, Zhan ^a   Kerschen, Edward J ^a,c   Cohen, Donald A ^a   Kaplan, Alan M ^a   Van Rooijen, Nico ^b   Straley, Susan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN YOPM; CLODRONIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE MUTATION; GR1 CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; LETHAL DOSE; LIVER; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLAGUE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, LY; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DENDRITIC CELLS; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LIVER; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MONOCYTES; NEUTROPHILS; PLAGUE; SPLEEN; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 69049119226     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00284-09     Document Type: Article

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