Haemophilus ducreyi SapA Contributes to Cathelicidin Resistance and Virulence in Humans

Haemophilus ducreyi is an extracellular pathogen of human epithelial surfaces that resists human antimicrobial peptides (APs). The organism's genome contains homologs of genes sensitive to antimicrobial peptides (sap operon) in nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. In this study, we characterized...

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Main Authors: Mount, Kristy L. B., Townsend, Carisa A., Rinker, Sherri D., Gu, Xiaoping, Fortney, Kate R., Zwickl, Beth W., Janowicz, Diane M., Spinola, Stanley M., Katz, Barry P., Bauer, Margaret E.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2010
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Molecular Pathogenesis
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2825904/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20086092
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/IAI.01014-09
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