Pneumococcal adherence to human epithelial cells
- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Infection and Immunity
- Vol. 23 (2), 545-548
- https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.23.2.545-548.1979
Abstract
Evidence is presented that pneumococci adhere poorly to oropharyngeal cells in vitro and that the capsule may interfere with adherence. Pneumococci may adhere poorly in vivo.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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