Survey of innate immune responses to Burkholderia pseudomallei in human blood identifies a central role for lipopolysaccharide
B. pseudomallei is a gram-negative bacterium that causes the tropical infection melioidosis. In northeast Thailand, mortality from melioidosis approaches 40%. As exemplified by the lipopolysaccharide-Toll-like receptor 4 interaction, innate immune responses to invading bacteria are precipitated by a...
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Format: | Journal article |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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