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Analysis of the behavior of eryC mutants of Brucella suis attenuated in macrophages.
Infection and immunity - 1 Oct 2005
Burkhardt Sonja, Jiménez de Bagüés Maria P, Liautard Jean-Pierre, Köhler Stephan
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The facultatively intracellular pathogen Brucella, characterized by its capacity to replicate in professional and non professional phagocytes, also causes abortion in ruminants. This property has been linked to the presence of erythritol in the placenta, as brucellae preferentially utilize erythritol. The ery operon encodes enzymes involved in erythritol metabolism, and a link with virulence has since been...
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