Immunotherapy with G-CSF in patients with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis

Immunology Letters

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 54-56

  van de Veerdonk, Frank L ^a   Koenen, Hans J P M ^a   van der Velden, Walter J F M ^a   van der Meer, Jos W M ^a   Netea, Mihai G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FILGRASTIM; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 6; STAT1 PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG RESPONSE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LETTER; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS CANDIDIASIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAT1 GENE; CANDIDIASIS, CHRONIC MUCOCUTANEOUS; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY;

CANDIDIASIS, CHRONIC MUCOCUTANEOUS; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS;

EID: 84938286893     PISSN: 01652478     EISSN: 18790542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2015.05.008     Document Type: Letter

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