BspR/BtrA, an Anti-σ Factor, Regulates the Ability of <italic toggle="yes">Bordetella bronchiseptica</italic> To Cause Cough in Rats

ABSTRACT Bordetella pertussis, B. parapertussis, and B. bronchiseptica cause respiratory infections, many of which are characterized by coughing of the infected hosts. The pathogenesis of the coughing remains to be analyzed, mainly because there were no convenient infection models of small animals t...

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Main Authors: Keiji Nakamura, Noriko Shinoda, Yukihiro Hiramatsu, Shinya Ohnishi, Shigeki Kamitani, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Tetsuya Hayashi, Yasuhiko Horiguchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-04-01
Series:mSphere
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00093-19