Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PneumoCompetence (Unravelling the mechanisms of competence induction by antibiotic stress in Streptococcus pneumoniae)

Despite the introduction of several vaccines, the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae remains one of the leading bacterial causes of mortality worldwide, killing 1 million of children each year. In developed countries, the rise of multi-drug resistance in S. pneumoniae...