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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Selective markers employed in classical mutagenesis methods using natural genetic transformation can affect gene expression, risk phenotypic effects, and accumulate as unwanted genes during successive mutagenesis cycles. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The discovery that Streptococcus pneumoniae uses a competence-stimulating peptide (CSP) to induce competence for natural transformation, and that other species of the mitis and the anginosus streptococcal groups use a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Despite vaccines, Streptococcus pneumoniae kills more than a million people yearly. Thus, understanding how pneumococci transition from commensals to pathogens is particularly relevant. Quorum sensing regulates collective ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Naturally acquired immunity against invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) is thought to be dependent on anti-capsular antibody. However nasopharyngeal colonisation by Streptococcus pneumoniae also induces antibody to protein ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The chemical decontamination of infected dental implants is essential for the successful treatment of peri-implantitis. The aim of this study was to assess the antibacterial effect of a hydrogen peroxide-titanium dioxide ...