| Literature DB >> 16552075 |
Illona Gillette-Ferguson1, Amy G Hise, Yan Sun, Eugenia Diaconu, Helen F McGarry, Mark J Taylor, Eric Pearlman.
Abstract
Endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria that infect the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus were previously found to have an essential role in the pathogenesis of river blindness. The current study demonstrates that corneal inflammation induced by Wolbachia or O. volvulus antigens containing Wolbachia is completely dependent on expression of myeloid differentiation factor 88.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16552075 PMCID: PMC1418907 DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.4.2442-2445.2006
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441