Association of the shuffling of streptococcus pyogenes clones and the fluctuation of scarlet fever cases between 2000 and 2006 in central Taiwan

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chiou, Chien Shun ^a,b   Wang, You Wun ^a   Chen, Pei Ling ^a   Wang, Wan Ling ^a   Wu, Ping Fuai ^a   Wei, Hsiao Lun ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EMM1 PROTEIN; EMM12 PROTEIN; EMM22 PROTEIN; EMM4 PROTEIN; EMM6 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; INFECTION RATE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCARLET FEVER; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TAIWAN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SCARLET FEVER; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TAIWAN;

EID: 67650642115     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-9-115     Document Type: Article

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