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Nod1 Signaling Overcomes Resistance of S. pneumoniae to Opsonophagocytic Killing

Airway infection by the Gram-positive pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae (Sp) leads to recruitment of neutrophils but limited bacterial killing by these cells. Co-colonization by Sp and a Gram-negative species, Haemophilus influenzae (Hi), provides sufficient stimulus to induce neutrophil and complem...

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Autores principales: Lysenko, Elena S, Clarke, Thomas B, Shchepetov, Mikhail, Ratner, Adam J, Roper, David I, Dowson, Christopher G, Weiser, Jeffrey N
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1950946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17722978
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.0030118