Involvement of Streptococcal Mitogenic Exotoxin Z in Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome

We report a nonfatal case of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) caused by a Streptococcus pyogenes emm118 strain encoding a novel variant of streptococcal mitogenic exotoxin Z (SMEZ-34). This variant was responsible for the major mitogenic activity in the cell culture supernatant. Patient ser...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Yang, Lily, Thomas, Mark, Woodhouse, Andrew, Martin, Diana, Fraser, John D., Proft, Thomas
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: American Society for Microbiology 2005
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Case Reports
Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1169092/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16000510
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.43.7.3570-3573.2005
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