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A Mouse Model to Assess Innate Immune Response to Staphylococcus aureus Infection
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Published on: February 28, 2019

A nitric oxide-inducible lactate dehydrogenase enables Staphylococcus aureus to resist innate immunity

Anthony R Richardson1, Stephen J Libby, Ferric C Fang

  • 1Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|March 22, 2008
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