M types of group A streptococcal isolates submitted to the National Centre for Streptococcus (Canada) from 1993 to 1999

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 4466-4471

  Tyrrell, Gregory J ^a,c   Lovgren, Marguerite ^a   Forwick, Betty ^a   Hoe, Nancy P ^b   Musser, James M ^b   Talbot, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN SIC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANADA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CANADA; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A;

EID: 0036900443     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.12.4466-4471.2002     Document Type: Article

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