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Mucosal Infection

An acute or chronic infectious process affecting a mucosal surface.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2018
Highly Cited
2018
Hyperglycemia drives intestinal barrier dysfunction and risk for enteric infection
Metabolic syndrome, leaky guts, and infection Metabolic syndrome often accompanies obesity and hyperglycemia and is associated… 
Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Beyond malaria--causes of fever in outpatient Tanzanian children.
BACKGROUND As the incidence of malaria diminishes, a better understanding of nonmalarial fever is important for effective… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Acute Gastrointestinal Infection Induces Long-Lived Microbiota-Specific T Cell Responses
Recognizing Escaped Commensals In order to coexist peacefully, the billions of bacteria in our gut and our immune system have… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
An essential role for the NLRP3 inflammasome in host defense against the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans.
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Effector-memory T cell responses are associated with protection of rhesus monkeys from mucosal SIV challenge
The rapid onset of massive, systemic viral replication during primary HIV or simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection and… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Mucosal transmission of R5 and X4 tropic HIV-1 via vaginal and rectal routes in humanized Rag2-/- gammac -/- (RAG-hu) mice.
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Bacterial neuraminidase facilitates mucosal infection by participating in biofilm production.
Many respiratory pathogens, including Hemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, express… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Mucosal AIDS vaccine reduces disease and viral load in gut reservoir and blood after mucosal infection of macaques
Given the mucosal transmission of HIV-1, we compared whether a mucosal vaccine could induce mucosal cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Neutrophil recruitment, chemokine receptors, and resistance to mucosal infection
Neutrophil migration to infected mucosal sites involves a series of complex interactions with molecules in the lamina propria and… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Mucosal immunization with HIV-1 peptide vaccine induces mucosal and systemic cytotoxic T lymphocytes and protective immunity in mice against intrarectal recombinant HIV-vaccinia challenge.
Mucosal tissues are major sites of HIV entry and initial infection. Thus, the induction of a mucosal cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL… 
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