Does IL-17 play a role in hepatic dysfunction of scrub typhus patients?

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 231-235

  Yoon, Hee Jung ^a   Lee, Myoung Shin ^b   Ki, Moran ^a   Ihm, Chunhwa ^a   Kim, Dongmin ^c   Kim, Yonghwan ^a   Yoo, Seung Min ^c  

^a Eulji University   (South Korea)

^b Eulji University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Chosun University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Headache; Interleukin 17; Liver dysfunctions; Rickettsia; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; INTERLEUKIN 7;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTHRITIS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LISTERIOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LYME DISEASE; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SCRUB TYPHUS; SYMPTOM; VASCULITIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-17; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCRUB TYPHUS;

CHLAMYDIA; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; LISTERIA; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 77951966344     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2008.0149     Document Type: Review

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