| Literature DB >> 16041040 |
Elaine Bignell1, Susana Negrete-Urtasun, Ana Maria Calcagno, Herbert N Arst, Tom Rogers, Ken Haynes.
Abstract
While investigating the requirement for phagosomal alkalinization in the host defense against pulmonary aspergillosis, we observed high morbidity of p47(phox)(-/-) mice infected with pH-insensitive Aspergillus nidulans mutants despite a paucity of fungal growth. Fatal infection also resulted from a normally avirulent p-aminobenzoate auxotroph. This demonstrates that p47(phox)(-/-) murine immunity contributes significantly to A. nidulans lethality. These data have wider implications for microbial virulence studies with p47(phox)(-/-) mice.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16041040 PMCID: PMC1201179 DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.8.5204-5207.2005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441