Browsing by Author "Harney, Kathleen"

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    • Interleukin-17A Mediates Acquired Immunity to Pneumococcal Colonization 

      Gross, Jane; Bogaert, Debby; Finn, Adam; Bagrade, Linda; Zhang, Qibo; Kolls, Jay K.; Lundgren, Anna; Forte, Sophie; Lu, Ying-Jie; Srivastava, Amit Kumar; Thompson, Claudette M.; Harney, Kathleen; Anderson, Porter; Lipsitch, Marc; Malley, Richard (Public Library of Science, 2008)
      Although anticapsular antibodies confer serotype-specific immunity to pneumococci, children increase their ability to clear colonization before these antibodies appear, suggesting involvement of other mechanisms. We ...