The Phosphorylcholine Epitope Undergoes Phase Variation on a 43-Kilodalton Protein in <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> and on Pili of <i>Neisseria meningitidis</i> and <i>Neisseria gonorrhoeae</i>

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Phosphorylcholine (ChoP) is a component of the teichoic acids of Streptococcus pneumoniae and has been recently identified on the lipopolysaccharide of Haemophilus influenzae, also a major pathogen of the human respiratory tract. Other gram-negative pathogens that frequently infect the human respiratory tract were surveyed for the presence of the ChoP epitope as indicated by binding to monoclonal antibodies...