Interleukin-12 regulation of host defenses against Coccidioides immitis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3609-3613

  Mitchell Magee, D ^a   Cox, Rebecca A ^a  

^a Texas Center for Infectious Disease   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 12;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 9544237159     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.9.3609-3613.1996     Document Type: Article

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