Taking this into account and to complement other
studies we designed an experiment to investigate the
ability of BbV to induce IL-8 release. Results showed that
BbV induced the release of this chemokine. Since BbV induces
IL-8 release as well as ROS production and the literature
shows that cytokines and ROS induce NETs liberation
(Fuchs et al., 2007; von Köckritz-Blickwede and Nizet,
2009), we suggest that IL-8 and ROS may contribute to
NETs liberation induced by BbV.