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Does anyone know of any bacteria that are associated with elastase?

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  #2

'An important virulence factor of the opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is elastase'

Found the above. Does it make sense?


  #3

Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces elastase which destroys elastin which is a protein that is a component of lung tissue







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