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Chemokine receptor CXCR2 mediates bacterial clearance rather than neutrophil recruitment in a murine model of pneumonic plague.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Mar 2011
Eisele Nicholas A, Lee-Lewis Hanni, Besch-Williford Cynthia, Brown Charles R, Anderson Deborah M
Abstract excerpt
Pulmonary infection by Yersinia pestis causes pneumonic plague, a necrotic bronchopneumonia that is rapidly lethal and highly contagious. Acute pneumonic plague accompanies the up-regulation of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, suggesting that the host innate immune response may contribute to the development of disease. To address this possibility, we sought to understand the consequences of neutrophil...
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