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Streptococcus pneumoniae synergizes with nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae to induce inflammation via upregulating TLR2

BACKGROUND: Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) plays a critical role in mediating inflammatory/immune responses against bacterial pathogens in lung. Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) and nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) were previously reported to synergize with each other to induce inflamm...

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Autores principales: Lim, Jae Hyang, Ha, Unhwan, Sakai, Akihiro, Woo, Chang-Hoon, Kweon, Soo-Mi, Xu, Haidong, Li, Jian-Dong
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2515102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18664270
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2172-9-40