A potential new pathway for Staphylococcus aureus dissemination: the silent survival of S. aureus phagocytosed by human monocyte-derived macrophages.

A potential new pathway for Staphylococcus aureus dissemination: the silent survival of S. aureus phagocytosed by human monocyte-derived macrophages.

Although considered to be an extracellular pathogen, Staphylococcus aureus is able to invade a variety of mammalian, non-professional phagocytes and can also survive engulfment by professional phagocytes such as neutrophils and monocytes. In both of these cell types S. aureus promptly escapes from t...

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Main Authors: Malgorzata Kubica, Krzysztof Guzik, Joanna Koziel, Miroslaw Zarebski, Walter Richter, Barbara Gajkowska, Anna Golda, Agnieszka Maciag-Gudowska, Klaudia Brix, Les Shaw, Timothy Foster, Jan Potempa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2169301?pdf=render

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