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Cytokines and legionellosis
1West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center, California 90073.
Biotherapy (Dordrecht, Netherlands)
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Recent studies have led to an enhanced understanding of the role of cell-mediated immunity and cytokines in Legionnaires' disease. In particular, the effect of interferon gamma on human mononuclear phagocyte iron metabolism and the role of iron availability of Legionella pneumophila intracellular multiplication in human monocytes has been elucidated. With this knowledge it is now possible to develop treatment strategies for Legionnaires' disease using interferon gamma and/or agents affecting human mononuclear phagocyte iron metabolism.