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Protective Role of Surfactant Protein D in Ocular Staphylococcus aureus Infection

Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most common pathogens causing keratitis. Surfactant protein D (SP-D) plays a critical role in host defense and innate immunity. In order to investigate the role of SP-D in ocular S. aureus infection, the eyes of wild-type (WT) and SP-D knockout (SP-D KO) C57BL/6 m...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Zhiyong, Abdel-Razek, Osama, Hawgood, Samuel, Wang, Guirong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4580580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26398197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138597