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The presence of the pilus locus is a clonal property among pneumococcal invasive isolates

28 Feb 2008

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BACKGROUND: Pili were recently recognized in Streptococcus pneumoniae and implicated in the virulence of this bacterium, which led to the proposal of using these antigens in a future pneumococcal vaccine. However, pili were found to be encoded by the rlrA islet that was not universally distributed in the species. We examined the distribution of the pilus islet, using the presence of the rlrA gene as a marker for...

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PMID: 18307767
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-8-41

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