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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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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 |