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  • Title: Tumor necrosis factor primes neutrophils to kill Staphylococcus aureus by an oxygen-dependent mechanism and Plasmodium falciparum by an oxygen-independent mechanism.
    Author: Kowanko IC, Ferrante A, Clemente G, Kumaratilake LM.
    Journal: Infect Immun; 1996 Aug; 64(8):3435-7. PubMed ID: 8757889.
    Abstract:
    The cytokine tumor necrosis factor (TNF) plays the important role of priming neutrophils for increased antimicrobial activity. We now demonstrate that human neutrophils which lack the ability to generate oxygen radicals, from patients with chronic granulomatous disease, show TNF-induced enhancement of killing of intraerythrocytic stages of Plasmodium falciparum but not of Staphylococcus aureus.
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