Yersinia pestis Endowed with Increased Cytotoxicity Is Avirulent in a Bubonic Plague Model and Induces Rapid Protection against Pneumonic Plague

An important virulence strategy evolved by bacterial pathogens to overcome host defenses is the modulation of host cell death. Previous observations have indicated that Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague disease, exhibits restricted capacity to induce cell death in macrophages due to ine...

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Main Authors: Zauberman, Ayelet, Tidhar, Avital, Levy, Yinon, Bar-Haim, Erez, Halperin, Gideon, Flashner, Yehuda, Cohen, Sara, Shafferman, Avigdor, Mamroud, Emanuelle
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2009
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2691952/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19529770
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005938
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