Contribution of capsular and clonal types and β-lactam resistance to the severity of experimental pneumococcal meningitis

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-134

  Ribes, Sandra ^a   Taberner, Ferran ^a   Cabellos, Carmen ^a   Tubau, Fe ^b   Ardanuy, Carmen ^b,c   Gerber, Joachim ^d   Liñares, Josefina ^b,c   Nau, Roland ^d   Gudiol, Francesc ^a  

^a Laboratory of Experimental Infection   (Spain)

^b BELLVITGE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBELL   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal models; Inflammation; Pneumococcal meningitis

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; LACTIC ACID; LIPOTEICHOIC ACID; PROTEIN; TEICHOIC ACID;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; LACTIC ACID; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PROTEINS; RABBITS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TEICHOIC ACIDS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 39749101720     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2007.10.014     Document Type: Article

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