Role of putative virulence factors of Streptococcus pyogenes in mouse models of long-term throat colonization and pneumonia

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1422-1430

  Husmann, Linda K ^a   Yung, Der Li ^b   Hollingshead, Susan K ^b   Scott, June R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; INFECTION RISK; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0030909888     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.4.1422-1430.1997     Document Type: Article

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