Phase variation in hmw1a controls a phenotypic switch in haemophilus influenzae associated with pathoadaptation during persistent infection

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• who: Ariadna Fernández-Calvet et al. from the Instituto de Agrobiotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IdAB-CSIC)-Gobierno de Navarra, Mutilva, Spain Microbiology Department, Hospital Universitari Bellvitge, University of Barcelona, IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain have published the article: Phase Variation in HMW1A Controls a Phenotypic Switch in Haemophilus influenzae Associated with Pathoadaptation during Persistent Infection, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 16/03/2021
• what: The authors show here that the major NTHi adhesin HMW1A displays allelic variation which can drive a phase-variable epithelial hyperinvasion phenotype.
• how: This result is . . .
  

   

  

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