Circulating Pneumolysin Is a Potent Inducer of Cardiac Injury during Pneumococcal Infection.

Streptococcus pneumoniae accounts for more deaths worldwide than any other single pathogen through diverse disease manifestations including pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis. Life-threatening acute cardiac complications are more common in pneumococcal infection compared to other bacterial infections....

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Main Authors: Yasir Alhamdi, Daniel R Neill, Simon T Abrams, Hesham A Malak, Reham Yahya, Richard Barrett-Jolley, Guozheng Wang, Aras Kadioglu, Cheng-Hock Toh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-05-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1004836
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