Contribution of a Novel Pertussis Toxin-Like Factor in Mediating Persistent Otitis Media

Chronic otitis media (COM) is the long-term infection and inflammation of the middle ears typically caused by upper respiratory tract pathogens that are able to ascend the Eustachian tube. Our understanding of contributing factors is limited because human otopathogens cannot naturally colonize or pe...

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Main Authors: Longhuan Ma, Colleen Sedney, Yang Su, Kalyan K. Dewan, Bodo Linz, Eric T. Harvill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2022.795230/full