Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight and comparative genomic analysis of M-18 group a streptococcus strains associated with an acute rheumatic fever outbreak in northeast italy in 2012 and 2013

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1562-1572

  Gaibani, Paolo ^a   Scaltriti, Erika ^b   Foschi, Claudio ^a   Baggio, Enrico ^a   Tamburini, Maria Vittoria ^a   Creti, Roberta ^c   Pascucci, Maria Grazia ^d   Fagioni, Marco ^e   Ambretti, Simone ^a   Comandatore, Francesco ^f   Pongolini, Stefano ^b   Landini, Maria Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA LOMBARDIA E DELL EMILIA ROMAGNA   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^d Regione Emilia Romagna   (Italy)

^e BRUKER DALTONIK GMBH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYLP2 GENE; ITALY; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPEA GENE; SPEA1 GENE; SPEB GENE; SPEC GENE; SPEL GENE; SPEM GENE; SPEZ GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PROPHAGE; SEROTYPING;

SPEA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

BACTERIAL DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROPHAGES; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SEROTYPING; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84928009288     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03465-14     Document Type: Article

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