Role of serotype-specific polysaccharide in the resistance of Streptococcus mutans to phagocytosis by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 644-650

  Tsuda, Hiromasa ^a   Yamashita, Yoshihisa ^a   Toyoshima, Kuniaki ^b   Yamaguchi, Noboru ^a   Oho, Takahiko ^a   Nakano, Yoshio ^a   Nagata, Kengo ^a   Koga, Toshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; INTERNALIZATION; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NEUTROPHILS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0033972311     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.2.644-650.2000     Document Type: Article

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