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Novel Genes Required for the Fitness of Streptococcus pyogenes in Human Saliva

Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus [GAS]) causes 600 million cases of pharyngitis each year. Despite this considerable disease burden, the molecular mechanisms used by GAS to infect, cause clinical pharyngitis, and persist in the human oropharynx are poorly understood. Saliva is ubiquitou...

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Autores principales: Zhu, Luchang, Charbonneau, Amelia R. L., Waller, Andrew S., Olsen, Randall J., Beres, Stephen B., Musser, James M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5663985/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29104937
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSphereDirect.00460-17