Capsule type of Streptococcus pneumoniae determines growth phenotype

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Hathaway, Lucy J ^a   Brugger, Silvio D ^a   Morand, Brigitte ^a   Bangert, Mathieu ^b,c   Rotzetter, Jeannine U ^a   Hauser, Christoph ^a   Graber, Werner A ^d   Gore, Suzanna ^b   Kadioglu, Aras ^b   Mühlemann, Kathrin ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CPSA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CPSA PROTEIN, STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FETAL CALF SERUM; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; MUTATION; OUTBRED STRAIN; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; SEROTYPING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICE; MUTATION; NASOPHARYNX; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84861219930     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002574     Document Type: Article

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