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Involvement of lipooligosaccharide heptose residues of Haemophilus parasuis SC096 strain in serum resistance, adhesion and invasion.
Veterinary journal (London, England : 1997) - 1 Feb 2013
Xu Chenggang, Zhang Lingyun, Zhang Bin, Feng Saixiang, Zhou Suming, Li Jingyi, Zou Yi, Liao Ming
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Haemophilus parasuis is the causative agent of Glässer's disease. To investigate the role of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) in H. parasuis infection, ΔopsX, ΔrfaF and ΔwaaQ mutants defective in expressing opsX, rfaF and waaQ heptosyltransferases were constructed by transformation. Compared to the wild...
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