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Minimization of bacterial size allows for complement evasion and is overcome by the agglutinating effect of antibody

The complement system, which functions by lysing pathogens directly or by promoting their uptake by phagocytes, is critical for controlling many microbial infections. Here we show that in Streptococcus pneumoniae, increasing bacterial chain length sensitizes this pathogen to complement deposition an...

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Autores principales: Dalia, Ankur B., Weiser, Jeffrey N.
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222866/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22100164
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2011.09.009
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