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Comparative Study
. 1997 Dec;179(24):7882-5.
doi: 10.1128/jb.179.24.7882-7885.1997.

Bordetella bronchiseptica expresses the fimbrial structural subunit gene fimA

J S Boschwitz  1 , H G van der Heide, F R Mooi, D A Relman
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Comparative Study

Bordetella bronchiseptica expresses the fimbrial structural subunit gene fimA

J S Boschwitz et al. J Bacteriol. 1997 Dec.

Abstract

The differential host species specificities of Bordetella pertussis, B. parapertussis, and B. bronchiseptica might be explained by polymorphisms in adherence factor genes. We have found that B. parapertussis and B. bronchiseptica, unlike B. pertussis, contain a full-length gene for the fimbrial subunit FimA. B. bronchiseptica expresses fimA in a BvgAS-dependent fashion.

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