Article
Relationship between colonial morphology and adherence of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Infection and immunity - 1 Mar 1995
Cundell D R, Weiser J N, Shen J, Young A, Tuomanen E I
Abstract excerpt
Phase variants in colonial opacity of pneumococci differ in the ability to colonize the nasopharynx of infant rats. To explain this observation at a cellular level, we compared the ability of opacity variants to adhere to buccal epithelial cells, type II pneumocytes, or vascular endothelial cells...
Topics
- Bacterial Adhesion
- Carbohydrate Sequence
- Carbohydrates
- Cells, Cultured
- Cytokines
- Endothelium, Vascular
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Lung
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mouth Mucosa
- Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins
- Receptors, Cell Surface
- Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled
- Streptococcus pneumoniae