The outer membrane proteins UspA1 and UspA2 of Moraxella catarrhalis are highly conserved in nasopharyngeal isolates from young children.

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Published in Vaccine on March 15, 2002

Authors

Patricia Stutzmann Meier1, Rolf Troller, Ioanna N Grivea, George A Syrogiannopoulos, Christoph Aebi

Author Affiliations

1: Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Friedbuehlstrasse 51, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland.

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