Temperature regulation of the streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin A- encoding gene (speA)

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 5399-5402

  Xu, Sihai ^a   Collins, Carleen M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOTOXIN; PYROGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0029827151     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.12.5399-5402.1996     Document Type: Article

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