Bartonella and Brucella—Weapons and Strategies for Stealth Attack

<<Pathogens of the closely related α-proteobacterial genera Bartonella and Brucella encode, on the one hand, homologous virulence devices and factors (i.e., VirB T4SS, LPS) and, on the other hand, specific effectors and strategies to invade, proliferate, and persist into host cells and organisms and thus engender distinctive chronic, occasionally fatal infections. >>

 

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