Vacuolating cytotoxin of Helicobacter pylori plays a role during colonization in a mouse model of infection.

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Published in Infect Immun on February 01, 2001

Authors

N R Salama1, G Otto, L Tompkins, S Falkow

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1: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA. nsalama@leland.stanford.edu

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