Bacterial determinants of persistent throat colonization and the associated immune response in a primate model of human group a streptococcal pharyngeal infection

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 283-292

  Ashbaugh, Cameron D ^a,b   Moser, Timothy J ^a   Shearer, Michael H ^c   White, Gary L ^c   Kennedy, Ronald C ^c   Wessels, Michael R ^a,b  

^a CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISTREPTOLYSIN; HYALURONIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; M PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BABOON; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MUTATION; PAPIO; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHARYNGITIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOLYSINS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 0033860082     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.2000.00050.x     Document Type: Article

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