Viral infection of the pregnant cervix predisposes to ascending bacterial infection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 934-941

  Racicot, Karen ^a   Cardenas, Ingrid ^b   Wünsche, Vera ^a   Aldo, Paulomi ^a   Guller, Seth ^a   Means, Robert E ^a   Romero, Roberto ^c   Mor, Gil ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA3 INTEGRIN; ALPHA4 INTEGRIN; BETA1 INTEGRIN; ESTROGEN; FIBRONECTIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROGESTERONE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE DYSREGULATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; UREAPLASMA INFECTION; UTERINE CERVICITIS; VIRUS ENTRY; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CELLS, CULTURED; CERVIX UTERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; INTEGRINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS; UTERINE CERVICAL DISEASES; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 84880095925     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1300661     Document Type: Article

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