Implication of pneumolysin as a virulence factor in Streptococcus pneumoniae endophthalmitis. - Concepedia

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Implication of pneumolysin as a virulence factor in Streptococcus pneumoniae endophthalmitis.

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1997

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E W Ng, Nasrollah Samiy, J B Rubins, FELECIA V. COUSINS, Kathryn L. Ruoff, Ann Sullivan Baker, D J D'Amico

Abstract

Pneumolysin injected intravitreally induces many of the clinical and histopathologic features of pneumococcal endophthalmitis, and may play an important role in the inflammation and tissue damage that occurs in pneumococcal endophthalmitis.