Interactions between human granulocytes and Blastomyces dermatitidis
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Interactions between human granulocytes and Blastomyces dermatitidis.
We studied interactions in vitro between human granulocytes and the yeast-like form of Blastomyces dermatitidis, because granulocytes are prominent in the host response to systemic blastomycosis. In Boyden chamber assays, broth culture filtrates of B. dermatitidis contained levels of granulocyte chemotactic activity that were significantly higher than those present in similar culture filtrates ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection and Immunity
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0019-9567,1098-5522
DOI: 10.1128/iai.23.1.41-44.1979