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Competence-induced protein Ccs4 facilitates pneumococcal invasion into brain tissue and virulence in meningitis

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major pathogen that causes pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis. The candidate combox site 4 (ccs4) gene has been reported to be a pneumococcal competence-induced gene. Such genes are involved in development of S. pneumoniae competence and virulence, though the functions o...

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Autores principales: Hirose, Yujiro, Yamaguchi, Masaya, Goto, Kana, Sumitomo, Tomoko, Nakata, Masanobu, Kawabata, Shigetada
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6177246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30251911
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2018.1526530