Preterm infants have deficient monocyte and lymphocyte cytokine responses to group B streptococcus

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1588-1596

  Currie, Andrew J ^a,b   Curtis, Samantha ^b   Strunk, Tobias ^b   Riley, Karen ^b   Liyanage, Khemanganee ^b   Prescott, Susan ^b   Doherty, Dorota ^c   Simmer, Karen ^c   Richmond, Peter ^b   Burgner, David ^b,d  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LYMPHOCYTE; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

CYTOKINES; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LYMPHOCYTES; MONOCYTES; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 79953312470     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00535-10     Document Type: Article

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