Serum cytokine responses in primary pneumonic plague patients

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 184-186

  Wang, Xiaoyi ^a   Wang, Zuyun ^b   Guo, Zhaobiao ^a   Wei, Baiqing ^b   Tian, Fuzhang ^b   Yu, Shouhong ^b   Wang, Haoran ^a   Wang, Hu ^b   Yang, Ruifu ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b Qinghai Institute for Endemic Disease Prevention and Control   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; MALE; PLAGUE; PRIMARY INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; PLAGUE; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 78650867884     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00386-10     Document Type: Article

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