Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi possesses a unique repertoire of fimbrial gene sequences.
Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi differs from nontyphoidal Salmonella serotypes by its strict host adaptation to humans and higher primates. Since fimbriae have been implicated in host adaptation, we investigated whether the serotype Typhi genome contains fimbrial operons which are unique to this...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2001
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