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Hydrogen peroxide scavenging is not a virulence determinant in the pathogenesis of Haemophilus influenzae type b strain Eagan

BACKGROUND: A potentially lethal flux of hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) is continuously generated during aerobic metabolism. It follows that aerobic organisms have equipped themselves with specific H(2)O(2 )dismutases and H(2)O(2 )reductases, of which catalase and the alkyl hydroperoxide reductase (Ah...

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Autores principales: Vergauwen, Bjorn, Herbert, Mark, Van Beeumen, Jozef J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16430767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-6-3