Group B Streptococcus hijacks the host plasminogen system to promote brain endothelial cell invasion.
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is the leading cause of meningitis in neonates. We have previously shown that plasminogen, once recruited to the GBS cell surface and converted into plasmin by host-derived activators, leads to an enhancement of bacterial virulence. Here, we investigated whether plasmin(o...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013
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