Association of group A streptococcal emm types with virulence traits and macrolide-resistance genes is independent of the source of isolation

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 913-917

  Creti, Roberta ^a   Gherardi, Giovanni ^b   Imperi, Monica ^a   Von Hunolstein, Christina ^a   Baldassarri, Lucilla ^a   Pataracchia, Marco ^a   Alfarone, Giovanna ^a   Cardona, Francesco ^c   Dicuonzo, Giordano ^b   Orefici, Graziella ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOTOXIN; MACROLIDE; STREPTOCOCCAL PYROGENIC EXOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; EMM GENE; ERMA GENE; ERMB GENE; ERMTR GENE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MEFA GENE; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPEA GENE; SPEC GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; THROAT CULTURE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; PHARYNGITIS; PHARYNX; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 25844489940     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46035-0     Document Type: Article

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