Identification of Pneumococcal Factors Affecting Pneumococcal Shedding Shows that the <italic toggle="yes">dlt</italic> Locus Promotes Inflammation and Transmission

ABSTRACT Host-to-host transmission is a necessary but poorly understood aspect of microbial pathogenesis. Herein, we screened a genomic library of mutants of the leading respiratory pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae generated by mariner transposon mutagenesis (Tn-Seq) to identify genes contributing...

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Main Authors: M. Ammar Zafar, Alexandria J. Hammond, Shigeto Hamaguchi, Weisheng Wu, Masamitsu Kono, Lili Zhao, Jeffrey N. Weiser
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/b6c89ed1bffe4b75a6bd6fe0635854ad
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