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Variation within serovars of Neisseria gonorrhoeae detected by structural analysis of outer-membrane protein PIB and by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Apr 1997
Cooke Susan J, de la Paz Helen, La Poh Chit, Ison Catherine A, Heckels John E
Abstract excerpt
Outer-membrane protein PI is the antigen responsible for serovar specificity of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and is a potential vaccine target. In order to investigate possible hidden variation within a serovar, the sequence of the por genes encoding protein PIB have been obtained from a series of strains, including isolates known to be epidemiologically linked. The inferred amino acid sequences of the PIB molecules of...
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