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Dermal mast cells reduce progressive tissue necrosis caused by subcutaneous infection with Streptococcus pyogenes in mice

Matsui, Hidenori, Sekiya, Yukie, Takahashi, Tetsufumi, Nakamura, Masahiko, Imanishi, Ken'ichi, Yoshida, Haruno, Murayama, Somay Yamagata, Takahashi, Takashi, Tsuchimoto, Kanji, Uchiyama, Takehiko, Ubukata, Kimiko

Journal of Medical Microbiology 2011; 60(1):128 · https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.020495-0

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Abstract

1 Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences and Graduate School of Infection Control Sciences, Kitasato University, 5-9-1 Shirokane, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8641, Japan

2 Center for Clinical Pharmacy and Clinical Sciences, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University, 5-9-1 Shirokane, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8641, Japan

3 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan

4 College of Human Science, Tokiwa University, 1-430-1 Miwa, Mito-shi, Ibaraki 310-8585, Japan

Correspondence
Hidenori Matsui
hmatsui{at}lisci.kitasato-u.ac.jp