Drastic reduction in the virulence of Streptococcus pneumoniae expressing type 2 capsular polysaccharide but lacking choline residues in the cell wall

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 93-107

  Kharat, Arun S ^a   Tomasz, Alexander ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL LINE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; DELETION MUTANT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CELL WALL; CHOLINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MICE; MUTATION; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 33644844445     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05082.x     Document Type: Article

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