Extensive genetic diversity among clinical isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes serotype M5

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 629-637

  Desai, Meeta ^a   Tanna, Asha ^a   Efstratiou, Androulla ^a   George, Robert ^a   Clewley, Jonathan ^a   Stanley, John ^a  

^a CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

emm gene; Group A Streptococcus; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE; ENDONUCLEASE; EXOTOXIN; RECOMBINANT DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 0031883226     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-3-629     Document Type: Article

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