Cleverly located surface proteins make some pneumococcal strains especially dangerous

Thursday, August 23, 2018 - 09:20 in Biology & Nature

Successful pathogenic strains of pneumococci have two proteins that, owing to their location on the surface of the bacteria, enhance their survival and ability to cause disease, according to a study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in Nature Communications .

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