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University scientists published in Nature results of a study of why Streptococcus pneumoniae causes disease in some people when about 40 percent harbor the bacteria in the nasopharynx asymptomatically.

In a rabbit model of pneumonia, the researchers found that the bacterium uses the receptor for platelet activating factor (PAF), which appears in response to an irritation such as a viral infection, to gain a foothold into cells. ...