Levels of Alpha-Toxin Correlate with Distinct Phenotypic Response Profiles of Blood Mononuclear Cells and with agr Background of Community-Associated Staphylococcus aureus Isolates

• Srikanth Mairpady Shambat,

  Affiliation Karolinska Institutet, Centre for Infectious Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Axana Haggar,

  Affiliation Karolinska Institutet, Centre for Infectious Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Francois Vandenesch,

  Affiliation CIRI, International Center for Infectiology Research, LabEx Ecofect, Université Lyon 1, Inserm U1111, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR5308, Centre National de Référence des Staphylocoques, Hospices civils de Lyon, Lyon, France

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• Gerard Lina,

  Affiliation CIRI, International Center for Infectiology Research, LabEx Ecofect, Université Lyon 1, Inserm U1111, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR5308, Centre National de Référence des Staphylocoques, Hospices civils de Lyon, Lyon, France

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• Willem J. B. van Wamel,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands

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• Gayathri Arakere,

  Affiliation Society for Innovation and Development, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore, India

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• Mattias Svensson,

  Affiliation Karolinska Institutet, Centre for Infectious Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Anna Norrby-Teglund

  * E-mail: anna.norrby-teglund@ki.se

  Affiliation Karolinska Institutet, Centre for Infectious Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden

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