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Role in virulence of a Brucella abortus protein exhibiting lectin-like activity.
Infection and immunity - 1 Jan 2006
Vemulapalli Tracy H, Vemulapalli Ramesh, Schurig Gerhardt G, Boyle Stephen M, Sriranganathan Nammalwar
Abstract excerpt
Brucella abortus is a facultative, intracellular zoonotic pathogen which can cause undulant fever in humans and abortions in cattle. A 14-kDa protein of B. abortus was previously identified to be immunogenic in animals infected with Brucella spp. In this study, we discovered that the 14-kDa protein possessed immunoglobulin binding and hemagglutination properties that appeared to be based on the protein's...
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