Review Article
The Role of Pneumococcal Virulence Factors in Ocular Infectious Diseases
Table 1
Virulence factor requirement during different ocular infectious diseases.
| Virulence factor | Conjunctivitis | Keratitis | Endophthalmitis | (reference) | (reference) | (reference) |
| Polysaccharide capsule | dispensable [7, 15, 64, 68, 112] | dispensable [7, 9] | necessary [105] |
| Pneumolysin (PLY) | Unknown | necessary [9, 32, 34] | necessary [25, 36, 37, 106] |
| Neuraminidase | necessary [7, 68] | necessary [7, 61] | unknown [108] |
| Zinc metalloproteinase C (ZmpC) | necessary [54, 55] | necessary [55] | unknown |
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