New preprint led by Vik Minhas that shows that only a small subset of epithelial cells actually respond to pneumococcal infection and activate innate immune genes. Great collaboration with @bartdeplancke.bsky.social @roi1avraham.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Streptococcus pneumoniae colonises the nasopharynx asymptomatically yet causes life-threatening invasive disease. How it navigates early epithelial immune surveillance to cause disease remains unclear...
