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Extracellular proteins and virulence in Streptococcus bovis isolates from pigeons.
Veterinary microbiology - 1 Dec 1997
Vanrobaeys M, De Herdt P, Ducatelle R, Creten W, Haesebrouck F
Abstract excerpt
The association between virulence and the occurrence of the extracellular proteins A, T1, T2 and T3 in the culture supernatant of pigeon Streptococcus bovis strains, was examined in experimental infection studies. Fourteen groups of 10-17 pigeons were inoculated intravenously with 1 x 10(9) CFU of S. bovis strains that belonged to the phenotypes A + T1, A - T1, A + T2, A - T2, A + T3 and A - T3, respectively. The...
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