Host Response and Bacterial Virulence Factor Expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Streptococcus pneumoniae Corneal Ulcers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Karthikeyan, Rajapandian SivaGanesa ^a   Priya, Jeganathan Lakshmi ^a   Leal, Sixto M ^b   Toska, Jonida ^b   Rietsch, Arne ^b   Prajna, Venkatesh ^a   Pearlman, Eric ^b   Lalitha, Prajna ^a  

^a ARAVIND EYE HOSPITAL   (India)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; CRYOPYRIN; EXOTOXIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INFLAMMASOME; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; PNEUMOLYSIN; PROTEIN ASC; PROTEIN NLRC4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 5; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL KERATITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ULCER; EXOS GENE; EXOT GENE; EXOU GENE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CHILD; CORNEAL ULCER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878640382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064867     Document Type: Article

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