An endonuclease allows Streptococcus pneumoniae to escape from neutrophil extracellular traps

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 401-407

  Beiter, Katharina ^a,b   Wartha, Florian ^a,b   Albiger, Barbara ^a   Normark, Staffan ^a,b   Zychlinsky, Arturo ^c   Henriques Normark, Birgitta ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENDONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CATTLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; ENZYMOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; LUNG; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA; ENDONUCLEASES; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATION; NEUTROPHILS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 32944482526     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.01.056     Document Type: Article

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