Antigen display, T-cell activation, and immune evasion during acute and chronic ehrlichiosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4643-4653

  Nandi, Bisweswar ^a   Chatterjee, Madhumouli ^a   Hogle, Kathryn ^a   McLaughlin, Maura ^a   MacNamara, Katherine ^a   Racine, Rachael ^b   Winslow, Gary M ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLYCOPROTEIN P 15095; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ACUTE EHRLICHIOSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHRONIC EHRLICHIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; EFFECTOR CELL; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA MURIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; EX VIVO STUDY; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; KINETICS; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEAL EXUDATE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ASCITIC FLUID; DENDRITIC CELLS; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 70349433665     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01433-08     Document Type: Article

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