Bordetella pertussis Commits Human Dendritic Cells to Promote a Th1/Th17 Response through the Activity of Adenylate Cyclase Toxin and MAPK-Pathways

• Giorgio Fedele ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Giorgio Fedele, Fabiana Spensieri

  Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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• Fabiana Spensieri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Giorgio Fedele, Fabiana Spensieri

  Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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• Raffaella Palazzo,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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• Maria Nasso,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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• Gordon Yiu Chong Cheung,

  Current address: Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis (LHBP), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

  Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• John Graham Coote,

  Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Clara Maria Ausiello

  * E-mail: clara.ausiello@iss.it

  Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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