Genetic relatedness of group A streptococci of the newly designated serotype M90 causing a food-borne outbreak and sporadic infections

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 299-301

  Pournaras, S ^a   Efstratiou, A ^b   Douboyas, J ^a   George, R C ^b   Tsakris, A ^c  

^a AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GREECE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGITIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GREAT BRITAIN; GREECE; HUMANS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0033670257     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268899004422     Document Type: Article

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