New concepts in immunity to Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Innate responses and suppression of adaptive immunity favor the pathogen, not the host

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue MAR, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Yingru ^a   Feinen, Brandon ^a   Russell, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive immunity; IL 17; Immunosuppression; Innate immunity; TGF ; Th17

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960182157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00052     Document Type: Article

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