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Hypervirulent Group A Streptococcus of Genotype emm3 Invades the Vascular System in Pulmonary Infection of Mice.
Infection and immunity - 1 Jun 2018
Lei Benfang, Minor Dylan, Feng Wenchao, Liu Mengyao
Abstract excerpt
Natural mutations of the two-component regulatory system CovRS are frequently associated with invasive group A Streptococcus (GAS) isolates and lead to the enhancement of virulence gene expression, innate immune evasion, systemic dissemination, and virulence. How CovRS mutations enhance systemic dissemination is not well understood. A hypervirulent GAS isolate of the emm3 genotype, MGAS315, was characterized...
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