Role of streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin B in the mouse model of group A streptococcal infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3931-3935

  Kuo, Chih Feng ^a   Wu, Jiunn Jong ^a   Lin, Kuei Yuan ^a   Tsai, Pei Jane ^a   Lee, Shiour Ching ^a   Jin, Ying Tai ^a   Lei, Huan Yao ^a   Lin, Yee Shin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOTOXIN; PROTEINASE; SUPERANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TISSUE INJURY;

EID: 0031870998     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.8.3931-3935.1998     Document Type: Article

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