Gastroenterology
Volume 132, Issue 2 , Pages 551-561 , February 2007

Extracellular Superoxide Production by Enterococcus faecalis Promotes Chromosomal Instability in Mammalian Cells

  • Xingmin Wang
    • ,
  • Mark M. Huycke

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to: Mark M. Huycke, MD, Medical Service (111), 921 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104. fax: (405) 297-5948.

Received 28 July 2006 ,Accepted 19 October 2006.

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 Supported by Department of Veterans Affairs Merit Review Program (to M.M.H.) and the Frances Duffy Endowment.

PII: S0016-5085(06)02521-2

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2006.11.040

Gastroenterology
Volume 132, Issue 2 , Pages 551-561 , February 2007

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