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Biological Factors > Toxins, Biological > Bacterial Toxins > Virulence Factors, Bordetella
Biological Factors > Toxins, Biological > Virulence Factors > Virulence Factors, Bordetella

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Virulence Factors, Bordetella  

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  • Bordetella Virulence Determinant
  • Bordetella Virulence Factors
  • Determinant, Bordetella Virulence
  • Virulence Determinant, Bordetella

Scope note

  • A set of BACTERIAL ADHESINS and TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL produced by BORDETELLA organisms that determine the pathogenesis of BORDETELLA INFECTIONS, such as WHOOPING COUGH. They include filamentous hemagglutinin; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; pertactin; PERTUSSIS TOXIN; ADENYLATE CYCLASE TOXIN; dermonecrotic toxin; tracheal cytotoxin; Bordetella LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; and tracheal colonization factor.

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  • 2003 (1986)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010566

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