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Streptococcus canis Are a Single Population Infecting Multiple Animal Hosts Despite the Diversity of the Universally Present M-Like Protein SCM

Streptococcus canis is an animal pathogen which occasionally causes infections in humans. The S. canis M-like protein (SCM) encoded by the scm gene, is its best characterized virulence factor but previous studies suggested it could be absent in a substantial fraction of isolates. We studied the dist...

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Autores principales: Pinho, Marcos D., Foster, Geoffrey, Pomba, Constança, Machado, Miguel P., Baily, Johanna L., Kuiken, Thijs, Melo-Cristino, José, Ramirez, Mário
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6450190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30984150
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00631