The role of mannose-binding lectin in severe sepsis and septic shock

Mediators of Inflammation

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  De Pascale, Gennaro ^a   Cutuli, Salvatore Lucio ^a   Pennisi, Mariano Alberto ^a   Antonelli, Massimo ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; CANDIDIASIS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HERPES SIMPLEX; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STAPHYLOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ALLELE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MUTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTIN; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 84886514878     PISSN: 09629351     EISSN: 14661861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/625803     Document Type: Article

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