HOST-PARASITE FACTORS IN GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS

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1 February 1960

journal article
research article
Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Vol. 111 (2) , 255-284
https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.111.2.255

Abstract

The factors present in streptococcal lesion extracts (SLE) which enhanced the lethal and tissue-damaging properties of Gram-negative bacterial endotoxins and streptolysin O were identified with the scarlet fever group of toxins.

Keywords

STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS/IMMUNOLOGY

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