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β-lactam antibiotic-induced release of lipoteichoic acid from Staphylococcus aureus leads to activation of neutrophil granulocytes

BACKGROUND: Polymorphonuclear neutrophil granulocytes (PMN) are phagocytes of the first line of antimicrobial defense. Previously we demonstrated that lipoteichoic acid (LTA) from Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) directly activates neutrophil granulocytes. Others have reported that exposure of S. a...

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Autores principales: Lotz, Sonja, Starke, Andrea, Ziemann, Christian, Morath, Siegfried, Hartung, Thomas, Solbach, Werner, Laskay, Tamás
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16803618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-0711-5-15

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