Serum killing of Ureaplasma parvum shows serovar-determined susceptibility for normal individuals and common variable immuno-deficiency patients

Immunobiology

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 187-194

  Beeton, Michael L ^a   Daha, Mohamed R ^b   El Shanawany, Tariq ^c   Jolles, Stephen R ^c   Kotecha, Sailesh ^a   Brad Spiller, O ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Common variable immuno deficiency; Complement; Hypogammaglobulinemia; Innate immunity; Ureaplasma

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LECTIN; PROTEIN A; PROTEIN G;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALCIUM DEPLETION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY; COMPLEMENT CLASSICAL PATHWAY; COMPLEMENT LECTIN PATHWAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; SEROTYPE; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; COMPLEMENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT PATHWAY, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A; UREAPLASMA;

EID: 84855282901     PISSN: 01712985     EISSN: 18783279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imbio.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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