Article
Streptococcal erythrogenic toxin genes: detection by polymerase chain reaction and association with disease in strains isolated in Canada from 1940 to 1991.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 1992
Tyler S D, Johnson W M, Huang J C, Ashton F E, Wang G, Low D E, Rozee K R
Abstract excerpt
The presence of genes encoding pyrogenic exotoxins type A (speA), B (speB), and C (speC) and streptolysin O (slo) was determined by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to target specific sequences in 152 strains of group A streptococci. These included reference strains, representative M and T typ...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Canada
- DNA, Bacterial
- Exotoxins
- Gene Frequency
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Humans
- Membrane Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oligonucleotide Probes
- Pharyngitis
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Scarlet Fever