The presence of the pilus locus is a clonal property among pneumococcal invasive isolates

BACKGROUND: Pili were recently recognized in Streptococcus pneumoniae and implicated in the virulence of this bacterium, which led to the proposal of using these antigens in a future pneumococcal vaccine. However, pili were found to be encoded by the rlrA islet that was not universally distributed i...

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Autores principales: Aguiar, Sandra I, Serrano, Isa, Pinto, Francisco R, Melo-Cristino, José, Ramirez, Mario
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2270847/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18307767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-8-41

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2270847/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18307767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-8-41

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