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Role of T cells in abscess formation
Arthur O Tzianabos1, Dennis L Kasper
1Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Departments of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. atzianabos@channing.harvard.edu
Current Opinion in Microbiology
|February 9, 2002
Abstract:
A series of recent studies have shed new light on the strategy used by certain bacterial pathogens to induce a classic infectious process: abscess formation. This work describes how zwitterionic polysaccharides on the surface of these organisms interact with the host immune system in general, and with T cells in particular, to coordinate this pathobiologic response.