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Phenotypic variants of meningococci and their potential in phagocytic interactions: the influence of opacity proteins, pili, PilC and surface sialic acids.

Microbial pathogenesis - 1 May 1997

McNeil G, Virji M

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In previous studies we have examined the roles of meningococcal surface structures (capsule, lipopolysaccharides, pili and opacity proteins: Opa and Opc) in bacterial interactions with human epithelial, endothelial and mononuclear phagocytic cells. In the current investigations, using defined derivatives of a serogroup A strain C751 and a serogroup B strain MC58, we studied the roles of these structures with...

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PMID: 9160299
DOI: 10.1006/mpat.1996.0126

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