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Rickettsial Infection and Immunity by Burt Anderson (auth.), Burt Anderson, Herman Friedman, Mauro

By Burt Anderson (auth.), Burt Anderson, Herman Friedman, Mauro Bendinelli (eds.)

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Finally, although the inhibitory effect of IFN-γ on a particular rickettsial strain in a particular cell line is generally more dramatic than that of IFN-α/β [consider, for example, R. prowazekii Madrid E in mouse L929 cells,10,23 R. prowazekii Madrid E or Breinl in human MRC-5 fibroblasts (Table I), R. rickettsii in BALB/3T3 and C3H/10T1/2 cells,24 and R. tsutsugamushi Gilliam in BALB/3T3 cells24], the opposite is true for R. tsutsugamushi TA716 (which is insensitive to rat IFN-γ but slightly sensitive to IFN-α/β in BALB/3T3 cells and C3H/10T1/2 cells24).

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