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Cooperative roles for fimbria and filamentous hemagglutinin in Bordetella adherence and immune modulation.
mBio - 26 May 2015
Scheller Erich V, Melvin Jeffrey A, Sheets Amanda J, Cotter Peggy A
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Bordetella fimbriae (FIM) are generally considered to function as adhesins despite a lack of experimental evidence supporting this conclusion for Bordetella pertussis and evidence against a requirement for FIM in adherence of Bordetella bronchiseptica to mammalian cell lines. Using B. bronchiseptica and mice, we developed an in vivo adherence assay that revealed that FIM do function as critically...
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