The Role of Host and Microbial Factors in the Pathogenesis of Pneumococcal Bacteraemia Arising from a Single Bacterial Cell Bottleneck

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Gerlini, Alice ^a   Colomba, Leonarda ^a   Furi, Leonardo ^a   Braccini, Tiziana ^a   Manso, Ana Sousa ^a   Pammolli, Andrea ^a   Wang, Bo ^b   Vivi, Antonio ^a   Tassini, Maria ^a   van Rooijen, Nico ^c   Pozzi, Gianni ^a,d   Ricci, Susanna ^a   Andrew, Peter W ^b   Koedel, Uwe ^e   Moxon, E Richard ^f   Oggioni, Marco R ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INOCULATION; MACROPHAGE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PH; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPLENIC MACROPHAGE;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84897410741     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004026     Document Type: Article

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