Streptolysin S and necrotising infections produced by group G streptococcus

Lancet

Volumn 359, Issue 9301, 2002, Pages 124-129

  Humar, Deepali ^a   Datta, Vivekananda ^b   Bast, Darrin J ^c   Beall, Bernard ^d   De Azavedo, Joyce C S ^c   Nizet, Victor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOTOXIN; STREPTOLYSIN S;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYBRIDIZATION; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAGA GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP G; TISSUE NECROSIS;

EID: 0037065568     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)07371-3     Document Type: Article

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