Effect of Serotype on Pneumococcal Competition in a Mouse Colonization Model

ABSTRACT Competitive interactions between Streptococcus pneumoniae strains during host colonization could influence the serotype distribution in nasopharyngeal carriage and pneumococcal disease. We evaluated the competitive fitness of strains of serotypes 6B, 14, 19A, 19F, 23F, and 35B in a mouse mo...

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मुख्य लेखकों: Krzysztof Trzciński, Yuan Li, Daniel M. Weinberger, Claudette M. Thompson, Derrick Cordy, Andrew Bessolo, Richard Malley, Marc Lipsitch
स्वरूप: लेख
भाषा:English
प्रकाशित: American Society for Microbiology 2015-10-01
श्रृंखला:mBio
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00902-15