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Failure of surface ring mutant strains of Helicobacter mustelae to persistently infect the ferret stomach.
Infection and immunity - 1 May 2003
Patterson M M, O'Toole P W, Forester N T, Noonan B, Trust T J, Xu S, Taylor N S, Marini R P, Ihrig M M, Fox J G
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter mustelae, the gastric pathogen of ferrets, produces an array of surface ring structures which have not been described for any other member of the genus Helicobacter, including H. pylori. The unique ring structures are composed of a protein named Hsr. To investigate whether the Hsr rings are important for colonization of the ferret stomach, ferrets specific pathogen free for H. mustelae were...
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