Lipopolysaccharide diversity evolving in Helicobacter pylori communities through genetic modifications in fucosyltransferases.

Helicobacter pylori persistently colonizes the gastric mucosa of half the human population. It is one of the most genetically diverse bacterial organisms and subvariants are continuously emerging within an H. pylori population. In this study we characterized a number of single-colony isolates from H...

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Main Authors: Christina Nilsson, Anna Skoglund, Anthony P Moran, Heidi Annuk, Lars Engstrand, Staffan Normark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2583950?pdf=render