Capacity To Utilize Raffinose Dictates Pneumococcal Disease Phenotype
ABSTRACT Streptococcus pneumoniae is commonly carried asymptomatically in the human nasopharynx, but it also causes serious and invasive diseases such as pneumonia, bacteremia, and meningitis, as well as less serious but highly prevalent infections such as otitis media. We have previously shown that...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2019-02-01
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| Series: | mBio |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.02596-18 |