Role of Pneumococcal Surface Protein C in Nasopharyngeal Carriage and Pneumonia and Its Ability To Elicit Protection against Carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Previous studies suggested that PspC is important in adherence and colonization within the nasopharynx. In this study, we conducted mutational studies to further identify the role PspC plays in the pathogenesis of pneumococci. pspC and/or pspA was insertionally inactivated in a serotype 2 Streptococ...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Balachandran, Priya, Brooks-Walter, Alexis, Virolainen-Julkunen, Anni, Hollingshead, Susan K., Briles, David E.
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: American Society for Microbiology 2002
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Bacterial Infections
Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC127914/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11953392
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/IAI.70.5.2526-2534.2002
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