Nature Medicine
- 12, 384 - 386 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nm0406-384
Streptococcus moves inward
P Patrick Cleary
The author is in the Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA. clear001@umn.edu
kanjiA common bacterium, group A Streptococcus, mysteriously causes a range of diseases from benign strep throat to 'flesh-eating' wounds. The difference between pharyngeal and invasive disease is now traced to mutations in two regulatory genes.
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