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Tumor necrosis factor induces resistance of macrophages to Legionella pneumophila infection.
Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Jul 2000
McHugh S L, Newton C A, Yamamoto Y, Klein T W, Friedman H
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Legionella pneumophila is an ubiquitous opportunistic intracellular pathogen that replicates readily in thioglycollate-elicited peritoneal macrophages from genetically susceptible A/J mice. Treatment of macrophage cultures in vitro with tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) induced resistance of the macrophages to infection by Legionella as compared with control macrophages treated with medium alone. Addition...
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