Virulence of streptococcus pyogenes for chicken embryos after isogenic inactivation of different streptococcal pathogenicity factors

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 418, Issue , 1997, Pages 793-795

  Schmidt, Karl Hermann ^a   Podbielski, Andreas ^b   Reichardt, Werner ^a   Gubbe, Knut ^a   Amberg, Cornelia ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHICKEN; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0030819135     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-1825-3_187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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