Editorial: Transmission, colonization, and molecular pathogenesis of pneumococcus

Affiliations

• ¹ Center for Immunology and Microbial Research, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States.
• ² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States.
• ³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
• ⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First People's Hospital of Zunyi (The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University), Zunyi, China.
• ⁵ Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, United States.
• ⁶ 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.