Bacterial pathogens produce complex carbohydrate capsules that dominate surface chemistry, inhibit phagocytosis and induce immunological responses by the host. The pneumococcus, or Streptococcus ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a serious public health threat. Understanding the biology of these bacteria—such as how they synthesise their protective capsules—is essential for developing new ...

Streptococcus pneumoniae remains an important pathogen despite licensure of a seven-valent pneumococcal protein conjugate vaccine. As a result, serotyping strains remains of paramount importance to ...

To understand how this pathogen adapts to different locations in the body, and also how the host responds to the invading microbe, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the ...

Vaccines that protect people from infection by Streptococcus pneumoniae, which kills up to one million children ever year worldwide, train the immune system to recognize the pathogen’s thick sugar ...

National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Many disease-causing bacteria like Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) are encased in a sugar layer called the capsular ...

The power of new genomic technology has been used by scientists to discover that microbes that commonly infect the eye have special, previously unknown properties. These properties are predicted to ...

Catherine Hyams PhD thesis defined the role of the Streptococcus pneumoniae capsule on pneumococcal interactions with complement factors and phagocytes, demonstrating that resistance to complement ...

Many disease-causing bacteria like Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) are encased in a sugar layer called the capsular polysaccharide (CPS). This layer is often essential for infections. In a ...

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