Characterization of a mouse-passaged, highly encapsulated variant of group A streptococcus in in vitro and in vivo studies

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 182, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1702-1711

  Ravins, Miriam ^a   Jaffe, Joseph ^a   Hanski, Emanuel ^a   Shetzigovski, Ilanit ^a   Natanson Yaron, Shira ^a   Moses, Allon E ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYALURONIC ACID; STREPTOLYSIN S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNALIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; NECROSIS; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; REGULON; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOLYSINS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033697447     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/317635     Document Type: Article

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