Extracellular matrix formation enhances the ability of streptococcus pneumoniae to cause invasive disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Trappetti, Claudia ^a   Ogunniyi, Abiodun D ^a   Oggioni, Marco R ^b   Paton, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MEMBRANE FORMATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIOASSAY; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

MUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 79956197296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019844     Document Type: Article

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