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Surface shaving as a versatile tool to profile global interactions between human serum proteins and the Staphylococcus aureus cell surface
18 May 2011
Abstract excerpt
The human commensal bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is renowned as a causative agent of severe invasive diseases. Upon entering the bloodstream, S. aureus can infect almost every tissue and organ system in the human body. To withstand insults from the immune system upon invasion, several immune-evasive mechanisms have evolved in S. aureus, such as complement inhibition by secreted proteins and IgG-binding by...
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