Molecular analysis of the role of streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin A (SPEA) in invasive soft-tissue infection resulting from Streptococcus pyogenes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 778-790

  Sriskandan, Shiranee ^a   Unnikrishnan, Meera ^a   Krausz, Thomas ^a   Cohen, Jonathan ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; EXOTOXIN; HLA DQ ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MITOGENESIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; MYOSITIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MUTATION; NEUTROPHILS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA, MESSENGER; STAINING AND LABELING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MURINAE; POSIBACTERIA; SPEA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0032791352     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01525.x     Document Type: Article

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