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Biofilm and planktonic pneumococci demonstrate disparate immunoreactivity to human convalescent sera.
BMC microbiology - 2 Nov 2011
Sanchez Carlos J, Hurtgen Brady J, Lizcano Anel, Shivshankar Pooja, Cole Garry T, Orihuela Carlos J
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BACKGROUND: Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) is the leading cause of otitis media, community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), sepsis, and meningitis. It is now evident that S. pneumoniae forms biofilms during nasopharyngeal colonization; the former which facilitates persistence, the latter, a prerequisite for subsequent development of invasive disease. Proteomic evaluation of S. pneumoniae suggests the...
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