| Literature DB >> 15501804 |
Eric R Lafontaine1, David Wall, Serena L Vanlerberg, Haig Donabedian, Darren D Sledjeski.
Abstract
The pathogens Streptococcus pyogenes and Moraxella catarrhalis colonize overlapping regions of the human nasopharynx. We have found that M. catarrhalis can dramatically increase S. pyogenes adherence to human epithelial cells and that species-specific coaggregation of these bacteria correlates with this enhanced adherence.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15501804 PMCID: PMC523028 DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.11.6689-6693.2004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441