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SUBMITTER: Boero E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7934835 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Boero Elena E Brinkman Iris I Juliet Thessely T van Yperen Eline E van Strijp Jos A G JAG Rooijakkers Suzan H M SHM van Kessel Kok P M KPM
Frontiers in immunology 20210219
Neutrophils play a key role in the human immune response to <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> infections. These professional phagocytes rapidly migrate to the site of infection to engulf bacteria and destroy them <i>via</i> specialized intracellular killing mechanisms. Here we describe a robust and relatively high-throughput flow cytometry assay to quantify phagocytosis of <i>S. aureus</i> by human neutrophils. We show that effective phagocytic uptake of <i>S. aureus</i> is greatly enhanced by opsoni ...[more]