Prevalence of the oral pathogen Filifactor alocis and its FtxA toxin related to clinical parameters and presence of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans

The Gram-positive organism Filifactor alocis is implicated in multiple oral diseases including periodontitis, and approximately 50% of known strains encode and produce a recently identified repeat-in-toxin (RTX) protein, FtxA, partly homologous to the Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans leukotoxin...

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Main Authors: Zeinab Razooqi, Nabil Khzam, Mahina L’Hostis, Georgios N. Belibasakis, Anders Johansson, Jan Oscarsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2024.1501028/full
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