Commentary Open Access
Volume 3 | Issue 3 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/immunology.3.090
Efferocytosis and Anthrax: Implications for Bacterial Sepsis?
Joshua S. Mytych1,2,*, Zijian Pan1, A. Darise Farris1,2
- 1Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), 825 NE 13th St., Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
- 2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), 940 Stanton L. Young Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
Corresponding Author
Joshua S. Mytych, josh-mytych@omrf.org
Received Date: January 16, 2021
Accepted Date: April 09, 2021
Mytych JS, Pan Z, Farris AD. Efferocytosis and Anthrax: Implications for Bacterial Sepsis?. J Cell Immunol. 2021; 3(3): 133-139.
Copyright: © 2021 Mytych JS, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords
Efferocytosis, Bacillus anthracis, Sepsis, Apoptotic cell clearance, Edema toxin
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