Association of Filifactor alocis and its RTX toxin gene ftxA with periodontal attachment loss, and in synergy with Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans

Association of Filifactor alocis and its RTX toxin gene ftxA with periodontal attachment loss, and in synergy with Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans

The Gram-positive bacterium, Filifactor alocis is an oral pathogen, and approximately 50% of known strains encode a recently identified repeat-in-toxin (RTX) protein, FtxA. By assessing a longitudinal Ghanaian study population of adolescents (10-19 years of age; mean age 13.2 years), we recently dis...

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Main Authors: Zeinab Razooqi, Ingeborg Tjellström, Carola Höglund Åberg, Francis Kwamin, Rolf Claesson, Dorte Haubek, Anders Johansson, Jan Oscarsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Subjects:
Filifactor alocis
FtxA
RTX toxin
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
JP2
periodontitis
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2024.1376358/full

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