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SUBMITTER: Harrison A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1797302 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Harrison Alistair A Ray William C WC Baker Beth D BD Armbruster David W DW Bakaletz Lauren O LO Munson Robert S RS
Journal of bacteriology 20061201 3
Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is a gram-negative bacterium and a common commensal organism of the upper respiratory tract in humans. NTHi causes a number of diseases, including otitis media, sinusitis, conjunctivitis, exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and bronchitis. During the course of colonization and infection, NTHi must withstand oxidative stress generated by insult due to multiple reactive oxygen species produced endogenously by other copathogens and by ho ...[more]