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Association of a Bacteriophage with Meningococcal Disease in Young Adults

Despite being the agent of life-threatening meningitis, Neisseria meningitidis is usually carried asymptomatically in the nasopharynx of humans and only occasionally causes disease. The genetic bases for virulence have not been entirely elucidated and the search for new virulence factors in this spe...

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Autores principales: Bille, Emmanuelle, Ure, Roisin, Gray, Stephen J., Kaczmarski, Edward B., McCarthy, Noel D., Nassif, Xavier, Maiden, Martin C. J., Tinsley, Colin R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2587699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19065260
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003885