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Potent Innate Immune Response to Pathogenic Leptospira in Human Whole Blood

BACKGROUND: Leptospirosis is caused by pathogenic spirochetes of the genus Leptospira. The bacteria enter the human body via abraded skin or mucous membranes and may disseminate throughout. In general the clinical picture is mild but some patients develop rapidly progressive, severe disease with a h...

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Autores principales: Goris, Marga G. A., Wagenaar, Jiri F. P., Hartskeerl, Rudy A., van Gorp, Eric C. M., Schuller, Simone, Monahan, Avril M., Nally, Jarlath E., van der Poll, Tom, van 't Veer, Cornelis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3069077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21483834
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018279