Gram-positive pathogenic bacteria induce a common early response in human monocytes

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>We infected freshly isolated human peripheral monocytes with live bacteria of three clinically important gram-positive bacterial species, <it>Staphylococcus aureus</it>, <it>Streptococcus pneumoniae </it>and &...

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Main Authors: Ghai Rohit, Tchatalbachev Svetlin, Hossain Hamid, Chakraborty Trinad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-11-01
Series:BMC Microbiology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/10/275