Effect of inflammatory response on in vivo competition between two chlamydial variants in the guinea pig model of inclusion conjunctivitis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 612-619

  Rank, Roger G ^a   Bowlin, Anne K ^a   Tormanen, Kati I ^a   Wang, Yin ^a   Maurelli, Anthony T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD45 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 8; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; RANTES; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA CAVIAE; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GUINEA PIG; IN VIVO CULTURE; INFLAMMATION; LACRIMAL FLUID; MIXED INFECTION; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVITIS, INCLUSION; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GUINEA PIGS; INFLAMMATION; TIME; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

EID: 84863139418     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.06054-11     Document Type: Article

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