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Although virulence of the sagA/pel mutant was decreased during the initial infection period, viable bacteria could be isolated from the spleen, kidney or liver 72 hours after infection in the skin.
No actin structures were seen in association with these bacteria, implying that they were indeed deficient in virulence gene expression and failed to escape from the endosomes (Figure 1d).
These include CWL029 http://chlamydia-www.berkeley.edu:4231/ [ 7 ] , AR39 http://www.tigr.org/ [ 8 ] , and J138 http://w3.grt.kyushu-u.ac.jp/J138/ [ 9 ] . Comparative analysis suggests that overall genomic organization and gene order in each C. pneumoniae genome is highly conserved [ 8 9 ] . Given this conservation, the study of individual regions of sequence variation will provide insight into strain-specific virulence, genetic diversity, and adaptive responses within and among C. pneumoniae populations.
These results showed that the IROMPs are surfaced exposed immunodominant antigens, which play significant role in virulence.
Hearteningly, the attacks failed because the terrorists couldn't obtain or produce germs of sufficient virulence.