Progress toward characterization of the group A Streptococcus metagenome: Complete genome sequence of a macrolide-resistant serotype M6 strain

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 190, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 727-738

  Banks, David J ^a,d   Porcella, Stephen F ^a   Barbian, Kent D ^a   Beres, Stephen B ^a   Philips, Lauren E ^a   Voyich, Jovanka M ^a   DeLeo, Frank R ^a   Martin, Judith M ^b   Somerville, Greg A ^a   Musser, James M ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; MACROLIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN R6; STREPTOCOCCAL PYROGENIC EXOTOXIN A4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL ANCHORAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MACROLIDE EFFLUX A GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEROCONVERSION; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; TRANSPOSON; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHILD; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EXOTOXINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHARYNGITIS; R FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PHAGES; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 3943087577     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/422697     Document Type: Article

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