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Infection and Immunity, June 2000, p. 3754-3757, Vol. 68, No. 6
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Cell Specificity of Helicobacter pylori Cytotoxin Is Determined by a Short Region in the Polymorphic Midregion

Xuhuai Ji,^1,2 Thomas Fernandez,¹ Daniela Burroni,¹ Cristina Pagliaccia,¹ John C. Atherton,³ Jean-Marc Reyrat,^1, Rino Rappuoli,¹ and John L. Telford^1,*

Department of Molecular Biology, IRIS, Chiron Vaccines, Siena 53100, Italy¹; Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China²; and Division of Gastroenterology, University Hospital, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, United Kingdom³

Received 22 December 1999/Returned for modification 28 January 2000/Accepted 7 March 2000

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