Pneumococcal meningitis is promoted by single cocci expressing pilus adhesin RrgA

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 126, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2821-2826

  Iovino, Federico ^a   Hammarlöf, Disa L ^a,b   Garriss, Genevieve ^a   Brovall, Sarah ^a   Nannapaneni, Priyanka ^a   Henriques Normark, Birgitta ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RRGA PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; RRGA PROTEIN, STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; CELL WALL; DISEASE MODEL; FIMBRIA; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CELL WALL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MALE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84987794549     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI84705     Document Type: Review

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