Severity of group B streptococcal arthritis is correlated with β-hemolysin expression

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 824-832

  Puliti, Manuela ^a   Nizet, Victor ^b   Von Hunolstein, Christina ^c   Bistoni, Francesco ^a   Mosci, Paolo ^a   Orefici, Graziella ^c   Tissi, Luciana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOLYSIN; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; JOINT INJURY; LD 50; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; MICE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0033823722     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315773     Document Type: Article

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