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Investigation of Streptococcus salivarius-mediated inhibition of pneumococcal adherence to pharyngeal epithelial cells

BACKGROUND: Pneumococcal adherence to the nasopharyngeal epithelium is a critical step in colonisation and disease. The probiotic bacterium, Streptococcus salivarius, can inhibit pneumococcal adherence to epithelial cells in vitro. We investigated the mechanism(s) of inhibition using a human pharyng...

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Autores principales: Manning, Jayne, Dunne, Eileen M., Wescombe, Philip A., Hale, John D. F., Mulholland, E. Kim, Tagg, John R., Robins-Browne, Roy M., Satzke, Catherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5041332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27681377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-016-0843-z