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Opa protein repertoires of disease-causing and carried meningococci.

Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2008

Callaghan Martin J, Buckee Caroline, McCarthy Noel D, Ibarz Pavón Ana Belén, Jolley Keith A, Faust Saul, Gray Stephen J, Kaczmarski Edward B, Levin Michael, Kroll J Simon, Maiden Martin C J, Pollard Andrew J

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The meningococcal Opa proteins play an important role in pathogenesis by mediating invasion of human cells. The aim of this investigation was to determine whether carried and disease-associated meningococci possess different Opa repertoires and whether the diversity of these proteins is associate...

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PMID: 18508936
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00005-08
PMCID: PMC2546767

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