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Age does not influence the disease course in a mouse model of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 3 meningitis

In order to elucidate the causes for the increased mortality of aged patients with bacterial central nervous system (CNS) infections, we compared the course of Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) meningitis in aged and young mice. Aged (21.2 ± 3.1 months, n = 40) and young (3.2 ± 0.9 months, n ...

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Autores principales: Manig, Anja, Ribes, Sandra, Diesselberg, Catharina, Bunkowski, Stephanie, Nau, Roland, Schütze, Sandra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6128987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30202419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12979-018-0129-4