T cell response and persistence of the microsporidia

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 748-760

  Ghosh, Kaya ^a   Weiss, Louis M ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CD8+ T cell; Cell mediated immunity; Cytotoxic T cell; Encephalitozoon; Microsporidia; Persistence

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; FUMAGILLIN; FUMAGILLOL CHLOROACETYLCARBAMATE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANNCALIIA; ANTIBODY TITER; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHOLANGITIS; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CORNEA ULCER; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; ENCEPHALITIS; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GERMINATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KERATITIS; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALABSORPTION; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIAN SPORE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MYOSITIS; NONHUMAN; NOSEMOSIS; OCTOSPOREA BAYERI; PEBRINE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOME; PLEISTOPHORA; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SURVIVAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRACHIPLEISTOPHORA; TUBULINOSEMA; VAVRIA CULICIS FLORIDENSIS; VITTAFORMA; VITTAFORMA CORNEAE; WASTING SYNDROME; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHRONIC DISEASE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS;

ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FUNGI; MICROSPORIDIA;

EID: 84859434019     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2011.00318.x     Document Type: Review

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