A locus of group A streptococcus involved in invasive disease and DNA transfer

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-99

  Hidalgo Grass, Carlos ^a   Ravins, Miriam ^a   Dan Goor, Mary ^a   Jaffe, Joseph ^a   Moses, Allon E ^b   Hanski, Emanuel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; STREPTOCOCCAL INVASION LOCUS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA TRANSFER; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LETHALITY; MOUSE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN; SPLEEN; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A'; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0036034896     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03127.x     Document Type: Article

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