Investigation of Haemophilus somnus Virulence Factors: Lipooligosaccharide Sialylation and Inhibition of Superoxide Anion Production
Virulent strains of the bovine opportunistic pathogen Haemophilus somnus (Histophilus somni) cause multi-systemic diseases in cattle. One of the reported virulence factors that H. somnus may use to persist in the host is resistance to intracellular killing. It is reported in this dissertation that H...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26848 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04142005-223651/ |