Infection and cellular defense dynamics in a novel 17β-estradiol murine model of chronic human group B streptococcus genital tract colonization reveal a role for hemolysin in persistence and neutrophil accumulation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1718-1731

  Carey, Alison J ^a   Tan, Chee Keong ^a   Mirza, Shaper ^b   Irving Rodgers, Helen ^c,f   Webb, Richard I ^d   Lam, Alfred ^e   Ulett, Glen C ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUTROPHILS; REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VAGINA;

EID: 84894251365     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1202811     Document Type: Article

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