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Streptococcus pyogenes causing toxic-shock-like syndrome and other invasive diseases: clonal diversity and pyrogenic exotoxin expression.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Apr 1991
Musser J M, Hauser A R, Kim M H, Schlievert P M, Nelson K, Selander R K
Abstract excerpt
Genetic diversity and relationships among 108 isolates of the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes recently recovered from patients in the United States with toxic-shock-like syndrome or other invasive diseases were estimated by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis. Thirty-three electrophoretic types (ETs), representing distinctive multilocus clonal genotypes, were identified, but nearly half the disease episodes,...
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