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Abstract
Two mutants of a pneumococcus type I with diminished peroxide production were selected from a population of nitrosoguanidine-treated cells. White cells of normal patients killed the mutant pneumococci as well as the otherwise isogenic wild-type strain. In patients studied with chronic granulomatous disease, however, the peroxide-poor strain was killed far less well than the wild type. These studies indicate that the removal of a peroxide-generating system in the phagocytic vacuole specifically brings forth the killing defect in chronic granulomatous disease.Entities:
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Year: 1974 PMID: 4148725 PMCID: PMC414763 DOI: 10.1128/iai.9.1.48-52.1974
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441