Apoptosis Is Essential for Neutrophil Functional Shutdown and Determines Tissue Damage in Experimental Pneumococcal Meningitis

• Uwe Koedel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Uwe Koedel, Tobias Frankenberg

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Clinic of the University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Tobias Frankenberg ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Uwe Koedel, Tobias Frankenberg

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

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• Susanne Kirschnek,

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

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• Bianca Obermaier,

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Clinic of the University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Hans Häcker,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Robert Paul,

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Clinic of the University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Georg Häcker

  * E-mail: hacker@lrz.tum.de

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

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