The infecting dose of Chlamydia muridarum modulates the innate immune response and ascending infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 6330-6340

  Maxion, Heather K ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Chang, Mi Hyang ^a   Kelly, Kathleen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CELL VIABILITY; CHLAMYDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HYDROSALPINX; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INOCULATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH1 CELL; UTERINE CERVIX; VAGINITIS;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CERVIX UTERI; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYTOKINES; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INTERFERON TYPE II; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; TH1 CELLS; VAGINA;

EID: 7044253299     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.11.6330-6340.2004     Document Type: Article

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