Group A streptococcal infections: Trend and strain emm typing in an area of central Italy, 1985-2002

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1107-1111

  Mencarelli, M ^a   Corbisiero, R ^a   Padula, M G ^a   Galgani, I ^a   Stolzouli, L ^a   Cellesi, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; M PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER PROTEINS; ITALY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRULENCE;

EID: 28244488752     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805004140     Document Type: Article

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