EmaA, a Potential Virulence Determinant of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans in Infective Endocarditis

The gram-negative fastidious human oropharyngeal Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is implicated in the etiology of infective endocarditis. EmaA, an oligomeric coiled-coil adhesin homologous to YadA of Yersinia enterocolitica, was hypothesized to mediate the interaction of A. actinomycetemcomita...

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Main Authors: Tang, Gaoyan, Kitten, Todd, Munro, Cindy L., Wellman, George C., Mintz, Keith P.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2008
Subjects:
Bacterial Infections
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2423096/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18347033
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/IAI.00021-08
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