Leukotoxic activity of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans and periodontal attachment loss.
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is a Gram-negative periodontitis-associated bacterium that expresses a toxin that selectively affects leukocytes. This leukotoxin is encoded by an operon belonging to the core genome of this bacterial species. Variations in the expression of the leukotoxin have...
Main Authors: | Carola Höglund Åberg, Dorte Haubek, Francis Kwamin, Anders Johansson, Rolf Claesson |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4122431?pdf=render |
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