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Scarlet Fever Is Caused By a Limited Number of Streptococcus pyogenes Lineages and Is Associated with the Exotoxin Genes ssa, speA and speC
30 Oct 2013
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BACKGROUND: Several outbreaks of scarlet fever caused by Streptococcus pyogenes were recently reported. Scarlet fever is historically considered a toxin-mediated disease, dependent on the production of the exotoxins SpeA and SpeC, but a strict association between scarlet fever and these exotoxins is not always detected. The aims of this study were to characterize the scarlet fever bacterial isolates recovered...
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