Affiliation:
1. Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany.
Abstract
Clindamycin treatment of Staphylococcus aureus caused a remarkable thickening of the bacterial cell wall and made the bacterial wall much more resistant against lytic enzymes within bone marrow-derived macrophages as revealed by electron microscopy and radiolabeling experiments. This reduced wall degradability resulted from an increased number of O-acetyl groups in the murein. Furthermore, such clindamycin-treated bacteria were ingested by adherent bone marrow-derived macrophages at a higher rate than untreated bacteria. The medical aspects of these results are discussed.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology
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