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Key role for clumping factor B in Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization of humans.
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BACKGROUND: Staphylococcus aureus permanently colonizes the vestibulum nasi of one-fifth of the human population, which is a risk factor for autoinfection. The precise mechanisms whereby S. aureus colonizes the nose are still unknown. The staphylococcal cell-wall protein clumping factor B (ClfB) promotes adhesion to squamous epithelial cells in vitro and might be a physiologically relevant colonization factor. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We define the role of the staphylococcal cytokeratin-binding...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050017
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- Public Library of Science
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- PLoS Medicine More from this journal
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- e17
- Publication date:
- 2008-01-01
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1549-1676
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1549-1277
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English
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- Copyright date:
- 2008
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- Copyright © 2008 Wertheim et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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