Interactions of extracts from selected chewing stick sources with <it>Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans</it>
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p><it>Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans</it> produces a leukotoxin that activates a pro-inflammatory death of human monocytes/macrophages. A specific clone of this bacterium (JP2) has a 530-base pair deletion in the leu...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2012-07-01
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Series: | BMC Research Notes |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/5/203 |