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    • Association of the Pneumococcal Pilus with Certain Capsular Serotypes but Not with Increased Virulence 

      Basset, Alan; Trzcinski, Krzysztof; Hermos, Christina; O'BRIEN, Katherine; Reid, Raymond; Santosham, Mathuram; Mcadam, Alexander; Lipsitch, Marc; Malley, Richard (American Society for Microbiology, 2007)
      The recent discovery of a mobile genetic element encoding a pilus-like structure in Streptococcus pneumoniae and the demonstration of a role for the pilus in virulence in mice have led to the proposal of the use of the ...