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Capsule Promotes Intracellular Survival and Vascular Endothelial Cell Translocation during Invasive Pneumococcal Disease
The polysaccharide capsule that surrounds Streptococcus pneumoniae (Spn) is one of its most important virulence determinants, serving to protect against phagocytosis. To date, 100 biochemical and antigenically distinct capsule types, i.e., serotypes, of Spn have been identified. Yet how capsule infl...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8510516/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34634940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02516-21 |