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Mandy L Edwards1, Peter K Fagan, Heidi Smith-Vaughan, Bart J Currie, Kadaba S Sriprakash.
Abstract
Epidemiologically unrelated Streptococcus pyogenes strains isolated from blood, throat, and skin were assayed for adherence to HEp2 and HaCaT cells. Invasive isolates showed significantly higher avidity for these cell lines than isolates from skin and throat. In general, S. pyogenes showed greater binding to HaCaT cells than to HEp2 cells.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12904423 PMCID: PMC179824 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.8.3936-3938.2003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948