Nonencapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae cause acute otitis media in the chinchilla that is enhanced by pneumococcal surface protein K

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Keller, Lance E ^a   Friley, Jessica ^a   Dixit, Cheshil ^a   Nahm, Moon H ^b   McDaniel, Larry S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute otitis media; AOM; NESp; Nonencapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae; Pneumococcal surface protein K; PspK

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PNEUMOCOCCAL SURFACE PROTEIN K; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ADHESION AND INVASION ASSAY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CHINCHILLA; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONENCAPSULATED STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84945562447     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofu037     Document Type: Article

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