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Cerebral microcirculation shear stress levels determine Neisseria meningitidis attachment sites along the blood–brain barrier

Neisseria meningitidis is a commensal bacterium of the human nasopharynx. Occasionally, this bacterium reaches the bloodstream and causes meningitis after crossing the blood–brain barrier by an unknown mechanism. An immunohistological study of a meningococcal sepsis case revealed that neisserial adh...

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Autores principales: Mairey, Emilie, Genovesio, Auguste, Donnadieu, Emmanuel, Bernard, Christine, Jaubert, Francis, Pinard, Elisabeth, Seylaz, Jacques, Olivo-Marin, Jean-Christophe, Nassif, Xavier, Duménil, Guillaume
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2118386/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16864659
http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20060482