Mitogenic effect contributes to increased virulence of Streptococcus suis sequence type 7 to cause streptococcal toxic shock-like syndrome

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 385-391

  Zheng, H ^a   Ye, C ^a   Segura, M ^b   Gottschalk, M ^b   Xu, J ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mitogenic effect; Sequence type 7; Streptococcal toxic shock like syndrome; Streptococcus suis; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MITOGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SPLEEN; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; SYNDROME; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 49649096831     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: 13652249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2008.03722.x     Document Type: Article

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