Epidemiological evidence for the role of the hemoglobin receptor, hmbR, in meningococcal virulence.
The distribution of the hemoglobin receptor gene (hmbR) was investigated among disease and carriage Neisseria meningitidis isolates, revealing that the gene was detected at a significantly higher frequency among disease isolates than among carriage isolates. In isolates without hmbR, the locus was o...
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2009
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