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Host-to-Host Group A Streptococcus Transmission Causes Infection of the Lamina Propria but Not Epithelium of the Upper Respiratory Tract in MyD88-Deficient Mice.
Infection and immunity - 25 Jan 2022
Minor Dylan, Cavon Jacob, Johnson Thea, Ontiveros Savannah, Gao Daniel, Quinn Mark T, Lei Benfang
Abstract excerpt
To understand protective immune responses against the onset of group A Streptococcus respiratory infection, we investigated whether MyD88 KO mice were susceptible to acute infection through transmission. After commingling with mice that had intranasal group A Streptococcus (GAS) inoculation, MyD88-/- recipient mice had increased GAS loads in the nasal cavity and throat that reached a mean throat colonization of...
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