Macrophages are the determinant of resistance to and outcome of nonlethal Babesia microti infection in mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 8-16

  Terkawi, Mohamad Alaa ^a   Cao, Shinuo ^a   Herbas, Maria S ^a   Nishimura, Maki ^a   Li, Yan ^a   Adjou Moumouni, Paul Franck ^a   Pyarokhil, Asadullah Hamid ^a   Kondoh, Daisuke ^a   Kitamura, Nobuo ^a   Nishikawa, Yoshifumi ^a   Kato, Kentaro ^a   Yokoyama, Naoaki ^a   Zhou, Jinlin ^b   Suzuki, Hiroshi ^a   Igarashi, Ikuo ^a   Xuan, Xuenan ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EDIBLE FUNGI   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLODRONIC ACID; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOLIPOSOME; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; CYTOKINE;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITEMIA; PATHOGENESIS; PIROPLASMOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; T CELL DEPLETION; TH1 CELL; ANIMAL; BABESIOSIS; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; IMMUNOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS); SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; CLODRONIC ACID; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MACROPHAGES; MICE, INBRED BALB C; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TH1 CELLS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84919469079     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.02128-14     Document Type: Article

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