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Analysis of the role of CovR and CovS in the dissemination of Streptococcus pyogenes in invasive skin disease.
Microbial pathogenesis - 1 May 2006
Dalton Tracy L, Hobb Rhonda I, Scott June R
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The global regulatory two-component system CovR/S controls expression of about 15% of the Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus; GAS) genome. Recently, we found that CovS plays a pivotal role in general stress response of this strictly human pathogen. Therefore, we expected that both CovS and CovR might affect virulence. In this work, mice were inoculated subcutaneously with isogenic nonpolar covR and...
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