Staphylococcus epidermidis polysaccharide intercellular adhesin activates complement

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 269-280

  Aarag Fredheim, Elizabeth G ^a   Granslo, Hildegunn Norbakken ^a   Flægstad, Trond ^a   Figenschau, Yngve ^a   Rohde, Holger ^b   Sadovskaya, Irina ^c   Mollnes, Tom Eirik ^d,e   Klingenberg, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

^d NORDLAND HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Complement system; PIA; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CD11B ANTIGEN; GLUCOSE; POLYSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE INTERCELLULAR ADHESIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; BLOOD; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EX VIVO STUDY; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; MONOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BIOFILMS; BLOOD; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; CYTOKINES; GENE DELETION; GRANULOCYTES; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 80053915720     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2011.00854.x     Document Type: Article

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