Molecular markers for throat and skin isolates of Group A streptococci

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 418, Issue , 1997, Pages 537-543

  Bessen, Debra E ^a   Fiorentine, Therese R ^a   Hollingshead, Susan K ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; M PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME; CONFERENCE PAPER; IMPETIGO; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHARYNGITIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SKIN; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; THROAT;

EID: 0030868216     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-1825-3_125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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