Biochemical mediators of meningeal inflammatory response to group B streptococcus in the newborn piglet model.

doi:10.1203/00006450-199512000-00025

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Biochemical mediators of meningeal inflammatory response to group B streptococcus in the newborn piglet model.

Pediatric research - 1 Dec 1995

Ling E W, Noya F J, Ricard G, Beharry K, Mills E L, Aranda J V

Abstract excerpt

The meningeal inflammatory response to a heat-killed mutant unencapsulated strain of type III group B Streptococcus (GBS) was studied in a newborn piglet model. GBS (10(9) colony-forming unit equivalents) or saline (control) was inoculated intraventricularly. Serial cerebrospinal fluid measuremen...

Topics

Animals
Animals, Newborn
Disease Models, Animal
Histocytochemistry
Inflammation Mediators
Injections, Intraventricular
Meninges
Mutation
Prostaglandins
Streptococcus agalactiae
Swine
Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

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