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A comprehensive analysis of Helicobacter pylori plasticity zones reveals that they are integrating conjugative elements with intermediate integration specificity

BACKGROUND: The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori is a paradigm for chronic bacterial infections. Its persistence in the stomach mucosa is facilitated by several mechanisms of immune evasion and immune modulation, but also by an unusual genetic variability which might account for the capabi...

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Autores principales: Fischer, Wolfgang, Breithaupt, Ute, Kern, Beate, Smith, Stella I, Spicher, Carolin, Haas, Rainer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4234485/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24767410
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-310