Hospital outbreaks caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa: importance of serogroup O11
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The Wzz proteins are important for determining the length of the O-antigen side chain attached to lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Several bacteria, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PAO1 (serogroup O5), produce two such proteins responsible for the preference of two different chain lengths on the surface. Our group has previously identified one wzz gene (wzz1) within the O-antigen locus of P. a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.16.2.266-270.1982