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An Extracellular Polysaccharide Locus Required for Transmission of Bordetella bronchiseptica.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 17 Oct 2017
Dewan Kalyan K, Taylor-Mulneix Dawn L, Hilburger Lindsay J, Rivera Israel, Preston Andrew, Harvill Eric T
Abstract excerpt
Background: The lack of animal models to experimentally study how infectious agents transmit between hosts limits our understanding of what makes some pathogens so contagious. Methods: We recently developed a Bordetella bronchiseptica mouse model to study transmission and have used it to assess, for the first time, which of several well-studied "virulence factors" common to classical Bordetella species contribute...
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