Non-typeable pneumococci circulating in Portugal are of cps type NCC2 and have genomic features typical of encapsulated isolates

BACKGROUND: Pneumococcus is a major human pathogen and the polysaccharide capsule is considered its main virulence factor. Nevertheless, strains lacking a capsule, named non-typeable pneumococcus (NT), are maintained in nature and frequently colonise the human nasopharynx. Interest in these strains,...

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Autores principales: Tavares, Débora A, Simões, Alexandra S, Bootsma, Hester J, Hermans, Peter WM, de Lencastre, Hermínia, Sá-Leão, Raquel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4200197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25283442
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-863

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4200197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25283442
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-863

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