Absence of SpeB production in virulent large capsular forms of group A streptococcal strain 64

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 744-751

  Raeder, Roberta ^a   Harokopakis, Evlambia ^b   Hollingshead, Susan ^b   Boyle, Michael D P ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; GENE PRODUCT; HYALURONIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; M PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHENOTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033978769     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.2.744-751.2000     Document Type: Article

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