Epidemiological Evidence for the Role of the Hemoglobin Receptor, HmbR, in Meningococcal Virulence
- 1 July 2009
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 200 (1) , 94-98
- https://doi.org/10.1086/599377
Abstract
The distribution of the hemoglobin receptor gene (hmbR) was investigated among disease and carriage Neisseria meningitidis isolates, revealing that thKeywords
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