LEUKOTOXIC ACTIVITY OF ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS ISOLATED FROM HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN PRIMATES Atividade leucotóxica de amostras de Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans de primatas humanos não-humanos

Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is a clinically relevant periodontopathogenic Gram-negative coccobacillus that produces a leukotoxin of the RTX cytolysin family. In this study, we evaluated the leukotoxic activity of A. actinomycetemcomitans strains isolated from human and marmosets by Trypan b...

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Main Authors: Francisca Lúcia de Lima, Flávio Furtado de Farias, Patrícia Cota Campos, Antônio Helvécio Totola, Carlos Alberto Pereira Tavares, José Eustáquio da Costa, Luiz de Mácêdo Farias, Maria Auxiliadora Roque de Carvalho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia 2001-10-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822001000300018