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Hudson P Pace1,2,3, Alyssa Borges4,5,6, Charles Arnaud4

  • 1Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, Sweden.

FEBS Letters
|June 24, 2026
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Outer membrane vesicle (OMV)Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM‐D)Salmonella TyphimuriumTailspike protein (TSP)native supported lipid bilayer (nSLB)siphovirus

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