Editorial: Transmission, colonization, and molecular pathogenesis of pneumococcus

• Jorge E. Vidal,
• Elsa N. Bou Ghanem,
• Xueqing Wu,
• Kaifeng Wu,
• Guangchun Bai,
• Sven Hammerschmidt

Affiliations

Jorge E. Vidal

Center for Immunology and Microbial Research, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States

Elsa N. Bou Ghanem

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States

Xueqing Wu

Department of Infectious Diseases, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Kaifeng Wu

Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First People’s Hospital of Zunyi (The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University), Zunyi, China

Guangchun Bai

Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, United States

Sven Hammerschmidt

Department of Molecular Genetics and Infection Biology, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Center for Functional Genomics of Microbes, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany