Development of in vitro and in vivo models to characterize biofilm formation by a necrotizing strain of Group A Streptococcus

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Anuradha Vajjala
• مؤلفون آخرون: Emanuel Hanski
• التنسيق: Theses and Dissertations
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2017
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70164
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Group A Streptococcus (GAS) causes a wide variety of human diseases, ranging from mild, self-limiting infections to highly invasive life-threatening diseases such as necrotizing fasciitis (NF) and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS). In accordance, GAS is the fourth most common bacterial cause...