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Florence Pache

Researcher at Charité

Publications -  44
Citations -  3671

Florence Pache is an academic researcher from Charité. The author has contributed to research in topics: Neuromyelitis optica & Optic neuritis. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 39 publications receiving 2754 citations. Previous affiliations of Florence Pache include Humboldt University of Berlin & Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

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The NLRP3 inflammasome is differentially activated by pneumolysin variants and contributes to host defense in pneumococcal pneumonia.

TL;DR: The inflammasome pathway is protective in pneumonia caused by pneumococci expressing hemolytic toxin but is not activated by clinically important pneumococcal sequence types causing invasive disease, and indicates that a virulence factor polymorphism may substantially affect the recognition of bacteria by the innate immune system.