Biofilm and planktonic pneumococci demonstrate disparate immunoreactivity to human convalescent sera

BACKGROUND: Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) is the leading cause of otitis media, community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), sepsis, and meningitis. It is now evident that S. pneumoniae forms biofilms during nasopharyngeal colonization; the former which facilitates persistence, the latter, a pr...

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Autores principales: Sanchez, Carlos J, Hurtgen, Brady J, Lizcano, Anel, Shivshankar, Pooja, Cole, Garry T, Orihuela, Carlos J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3216281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22047041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-11-245

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3216281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22047041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-11-245

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