Streptococcus pneumoniae is desiccation tolerant and infectious upon rehydration

mBio

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Walsh, Rebecca L ^a   Camilli, Andrew ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESICCATION; FOMITE; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHYDRATION; STARVATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURVIVAL TIME; VIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; DISEASE MODEL; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VIRULENCE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; CARRIER STATE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DESICCATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FOMITES; MICE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TIME FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84855205271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00092-11     Document Type: Article

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