Variations in emm type among group A streptococcal isolates causing invasive or noninvasive infections in a nationwide study

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 3101-3109

  Ekelund, Kim ^a   Darenberg, Jessica ^b   Norrby Teglund, Anna ^b   Hoffmann, Steen ^a   Bang, Didi ^a,c   Skinhøj, Peter ^d   Konradsen, Helle Bossen ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISTREPTOLYSIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; SUPERANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPEA GENE; SPEC GENE; SPEH GENE; SPEI GENE; SSA GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SUPERANTIGENS; VIRULENCE;

SPEA;

EID: 22144476551     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.7.3101-3109.2005     Document Type: Article

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