Protective role of the capsule and impact of serotype 4 switching on Streptococcus mitis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3790-3801

  Rukke, Håkon V ^a   Kalluru, Raja Sab ^a   Repnik, Urska ^a   Gerlini, Alice ^b,c   José, Ricardo J ^d   Periselneris, Jimstan ^d   Marshall, Helina ^d   Griffiths, Gareth ^a   Oggioni, Marco Rinaldo ^b,c,e   Brown, Jeremy S ^d   Petersen, Fernanda C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HORSE; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG MODEL; MACROPHAGE; MICROCAPSULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TYPE STRAIN; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HORSES; HUMANS; LUNG; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84906057182     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01840-14     Document Type: Article

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