Does cold environment affect Streptococcus pneumoniae adherence to rat buccal epithelium?

Respiration

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 546-551

  Öztuna, Funda ^a   Özlü, Tevfik ^a   Bülbül, Yilmaz ^a   Buruk, Kurtuluş ^a   Topbaş, Murat ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bacterial adherence; Buccal mucosa; Cold exposure; Lower respiratory tract infection; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CHEEK MUCOSA; COLD; COLD AIR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; INCUBATION TIME; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; COLD; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOUTH MUCOSA; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 33745215483     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000090160     Document Type: Article

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