Genome sequence of a nephritogenic and highly transformable M49 strain of Streptococcus pyogenes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 7773-7785

  McShan, W Michael ^a   Ferretti, Joseph J ^b   Karasawa, Tadahiro ^d   Suvorov, Alexander N ^e   Lin, Shaoping ^c   Qin, Biafang ^c   Jia, Honggui ^c   Kenton, Steve ^c   Najar, Fares ^c   Wu, Hongmin ^c   Scott, Julie ^a   Roe, Bruce A ^c   Savic, Dragutin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEPHRITOGENIC ANTIGEN; NUDIX HYDROLASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; SKIN INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROPHAGES; PYROPHOSPHATASES; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VIRULENCE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 57349084131     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00672-08     Document Type: Article

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