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Neisseria meningitidis RTX Proteins Are Not Required for Virulence in Infant Rats

Published:2003-04 Issue:4 Volume:71 Page:2253-2257
ISSN:0019-9567
Container-title:Infection and Immunity
language:en
Short-container-title:Infect Immun

Author:

Forman Stanislav¹,Linhartova Irena¹,Osicka Radim¹,Nassif Xavier²,Sebo Peter¹,Pelicic Vladimir²

Affiliation:

1. Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Bacterial Pathogens, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic

2. INSERM U570, Faculté de Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, 75015 Paris, France

Abstract

ABSTRACT RTX cytotoxins play an important role in virulence of numerous gram-negative pathogens. Unexpectedly, however, we show here that the RTX proteins of Neisseria meningitidis are dispensable for virulence in the infant rat model of infection.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/IAI.71.4.2253-2257.2003

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