Genetic relationships between clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus oralis, and Streptococcus mitis: Characterization of 'atypical' pneumococci and organisms allied to S. mitis harboring S. pneumoniae virulence factor-encoding genes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1374-1382

  Whatmore, Adrian M ^a   Efstratiou, Androulla ^b   Pickerill, A Paul ^a   Broughton, Karen ^b   Woodard, Geoffrey ^a   Sturgeon, Daniel ^a   George, Robert ^b   Dowson, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PHENOTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOLYSINS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033953035     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.3.1374-1382.2000     Document Type: Article

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