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Ficolin-2 binds to serotype 35B pneumococcus as it does to serotypes 11A and 31, and these serotypes cause more infections in older adults than in children
Among 98 serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae, only a small subset regularly causes invasive pneumococcal diseases (IPD). We previously demonstrated that serotype 11A binds to ficolin-2 and has low invasiveness in children. Epidemiologic data suggested, however, that serotype 11A IPD afflicts older...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6306229/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30586458 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209657 |