Innate Immunity to Pneumococcal Infection of the Central Nervous System Depends on Toll‐Like Receptor (TLR) 2 and TLR4
- 1 October 2008
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 198 (7), 1028-1036
- https://doi.org/10.1086/591626
Abstract
Background. Recent studies have suggested that, in addition to Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2, other pattern recognition receptors mediate activation of the immune response after infection of the central nervous system (CNS) with Streptococcus pneumoniae (SP).Keywords
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