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Airway Mucus Restricts Neisseria meningitidis Away from Nasopharyngeal Epithelial Cells and Protects the Mucosa from Inflammation

Neisseria meningitidis is an inhabitant of the nasopharynx, from which it is transmitted from person to person or disseminates in blood and becomes a harmful pathogen. In this work, we addressed colonization of the nasopharyngeal niche by focusing on the interplay between meningococci and the airway...

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Autores principales: Audry, Mathilde, Robbe-Masselot, Catherine, Barnier, Jean-Philippe, Gachet, Benoit, Saubaméa, Bruno, Schmitt, Alain, Schönherr-Hellec, Sophia, Léonard, Renaud, Nassif, Xavier, Coureuil, Mathieu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6893211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31801841
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00494-19