An extracellular Staphylococcus epidermidis polysaccharide: relation to Polysaccharide Intercellular Adhesin and its implication in phagocytosis

BACKGROUND: The skin commensal and opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus epidermidis is a leading cause of hospital-acquired and biomaterial-associated infections. The polysaccharide intercellular adhesin (PIA), a homoglycan composed of β-1,6-linked N-acetylglucosamine residues, synthesized by enzym...

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Autores principales: Spiliopoulou, Anastasia I, Krevvata, Maria I, Kolonitsiou, Fevronia, Harris, Llinos G, Wilkinson, Thomas S, Davies, Angharad P, Dimitracopoulos, Georgios O, Karamanos, Nikos K, Mack, Dietrich, Anastassiou, Evangelos D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3431232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22594478
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-12-76

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3431232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22594478
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-12-76

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