Fatal infection in adults by pneumolysin & autolysin producing, non-vaccine serotype Streptococcus pneumonia

Indian J Med Res. 2016 Apr;143(4):514-7. doi: 10.4103/0971-5916.184307.

Authors

Reba Kanungo¹, S Anandhalakshmi¹, C Sheeladevi¹, M Sudhagar², James John³, K Prashanth³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry 605 014, India.
² Department of Medicine, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry 605 014, India.
³ Department of Biotechnology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry 605 014, India.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Bacterial Proteins / genetics
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
N-Acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine Amidase / genetics*
Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / drug therapy
Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / microbiology
Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / mortality*
Serogroup
Streptococcus pneumoniae / drug effects
Streptococcus pneumoniae / genetics
Streptococcus pneumoniae / pathogenicity*
Streptolysins / genetics*

Substances

Bacterial Proteins
Streptolysins
plY protein, Streptococcus pneumoniae
N-Acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine Amidase