Naturally Occurring Lipid A Mutants in Neisseria meningitidis from Patients with Invasive Meningococcal Disease Are Associated with Reduced Coagulopathy

Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of bacterial meningitis and sepsis worldwide. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a major component of the Gram-negative bacterial outer membrane, is sensed by mammalian cells through Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), resulting in activation of proinflammatory cytokine pathw...

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Autores principales: Fransen, Floris, Heckenberg, Sebastiaan G. B., Hamstra, Hendrik Jan, Feller, Moniek, Boog, Claire J. P., van Putten, Jos P. M., van de Beek, Diederik, van der Ende, Arie, van der Ley, Peter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2667671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19390612
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000396

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