The majority of genes in the pathogenic Neisseria species are present in non-pathogenic Neisseria lactamica, including those designated as 'virulence genes'

BACKGROUND: Neisseria meningitidis causes the life-threatening diseases meningococcal meningitis and meningococcal septicemia. Neisseria gonorrhoeae is closely related to the meningococcus, but is the cause of the very different infection, gonorrhea. A number of genes have been implicated in the vir...

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Autores principales: Snyder, Lori AS, Saunders, Nigel J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1538595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16734888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-7-128

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1538595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16734888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-7-128

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