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Non-typeable pneumococci circulating in Portugal are of cps type NCC2 and have genomic features typical of encapsulated isolates.
BMC genomics - 6 Oct 2014
Tavares Débora A, Simões Alexandra S, Bootsma Hester J, Hermans Peter Wm, de Lencastre Hermínia, Sá-Leão Raquel
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BACKGROUND: Pneumococcus is a major human pathogen and the polysaccharide capsule is considered its main virulence factor. Nevertheless, strains lacking a capsule, named non-typeable pneumococcus (NT), are maintained in nature and frequently colonise the human nasopharynx. Interest in these strai...
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