Circulating Mucosal Associated Invariant T Cells Are Activated in Vibrio cholerae O1 Infection and Associated with Lipopolysaccharide Antibody Responses

Vibrio cholerae is the bacterium that causes cholera, which can be a potentially fatal diarrheal disease that affects millions of people worldwide each year. How our immune system provides protection against cholera is poorly understood. Mucosal Associated Invariant T (MAIT) cells are recently disc...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Leung, Daniel T., Bhuiyan, Taufiqur R., Nishat, Naoshin S., Hoq, Mohammad Rubel, Aktar, Amena, Rahman, M. Arifur, Uddin, Taher, Khan, Ashraful I., Chowdhury, Fahima, Charles, Richelle C., Harris, Jason B., Calderwood, Stephen B., Qadri, Firdausi, Ryan, Edward T.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4140671/