Field of Science

Showing posts with label Paper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paper. Show all posts

Capsular Polysaccharide and Pneumococcal Disease

This post was chosen as an Editor's Selection for ResearchBlogging.org This week looking at the capsular polysaccharide of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Want to know how I know? I wrote it :)

Insert stock photo of pneumo. Check.

It seems a little wrong to blog my own paper but in reality more people will read this blog entry than will read the paper itself, and that’s fine. Its relevance is very narrow and the work very preliminary but really it’s the drive behind the work that is important. So lets talk about Streptococcus pneumoniae (aka the pneumococcus or simply pneumo) for a second to set the scene.