Opa protein repertoires of disease-causing and carried meningococci

The meningococcal Opa proteins play an important role in pathogenesis by mediating invasion of human cells. The aim of this investigation was to determine whether carried and disease-associated meningococci possess different Opa repertoires and whether the diversity of these proteins is associated w...

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Hlavní autoři: Callaghan, M, Buckee, C, McCarthy, N, Ibarz Pavón, A, Jolley, K, Faust, S, Gray, S, Kaczmarski, E, Levin, M, Kroll, J, Maiden, M, Pollard, A
Médium: Journal article
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: American Society for Microbiology 2008