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Polypeptides of Treponema pallidum: progress toward understanding their structural, functional, and immunologic roles. Treponema Pallidum Polypeptide Research Group.
1993-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum, the spirochete that causes syphilis, is unusual in a number of respects, including its small genome size, inability to grow under standard in vitro culture conditions, microaerophilism, apparent paucity of outer membrane proteins, structurally complex periplasmic flagella, and ability to evade the host immune responses and cause disease over a period of years to decades. Many of...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 44bbc938-9e74-5ba2-baf3-7e65ea201476
- DOI
- 10.1128/mmbr.57.3.750-779.1993
