Evicting the pneumococcus from its nasopharyngeal lodgings

James C Paton; Abiodun D Ogunniyi

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2011.01.013

Evicting the pneumococcus from its nasopharyngeal lodgings

Cell Host Microbe. 2011 Feb 17;9(2):89-91. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2011.01.013.

Authors

James C Paton¹, Abiodun D Ogunniyi

Affiliation

¹ Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide, Australia. james.paton@adelaide.edu.au

PMID: 21320691
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2011.01.013

Abstract

Nasopharyngeal colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae precedes invasive disease and mediates community transmission of the pathogen. In this issue, Moffitt et al. (2011) used proteomic analysis to identify conserved pneumococcal protein vaccine antigens that elicit T(H)17-dependent responses capable of preventing such colonization.

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