Construction and characterization of isogenic mutants of Streptococcus mutans deficient in major surface protein antigen P1 (I/II).

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Published in Infect Immun on November 01, 1989

Authors

S F Lee1, A Progulske-Fox, G W Erdos, D A Piacentini, G Y Ayakawa, P J Crowley, A S Bleiweis

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1: Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610.

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