Susceptibility and resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Subtitle: lessons from the mouse
By: a thesis presented by Alissa Arshalous Chackerian
Published: 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Tuberculosis; Immunology; Mice
Notes: Thesis (Ph. D., Division of Medical Sciences (Immunology))--Harvard University, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-151).
Table of contents: title: Includes three offprints :; title: Gamma interferon-producing CD4+ T lymphocytes in the lung correlate with resistance to infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis  -- Alissa A. Chackerian, Thushara V. Perera, and Samuel M. Behar -- (Infection and immunity, v. 69:4, April 2001, pp. 2666-2674); title: Dissemination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is influenced by host factors and precedes the initiation of T-cell immunity -- (Infection and immunity, v. 70:8, August 2002, pp. 4501-4509); title: Activation of NKT cells protects mice from tuberculosis-- (Infection and immunity, v. 70:11, November 2002, pp. 6302-6309)