Mechanisms of meningococcal colonisation.
Despite advances against infectious diseases over the past century, Neisseria meningitidis remains a major causative agent of meningitis and septicaemia worldwide. Its adaptation for survival in the human nasopharynx makes the meningococcus a highly successful commensal bacterium. Recent progress ha...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2011
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