Dissemination of streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin G (spegg) with an IS-like element in fish isolates of Streptococcus dysgalactiae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 309, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 105-113

  Abdelsalam, Mohamed ^a,b   Chen, Shih Chu ^c   Yoshida, Terutoyo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b Cairo University   (Egypt)

^c NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

insertion sequence; streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin G (spegg); streptolysin S (sagA); superantigen

Indexed keywords

EXOTOXIN; SAGA ANTIGEN; STREPTOCOCCAL PYROGENIC EXOTOXIN G; STREPTOLYSIN S; SUPERANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSPOSON; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; FISH; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; HYBRID GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP C; STRUCTURAL GENE; SWINE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; FISH DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRANSPOSON; VETERINARY;

SPEA; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE; SUIDAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EXOTOXINS; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHYLOGENY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 77954356243     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02024.x     Document Type: Article

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