A glimpse of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome from comparative genomics of S. suis 2 Chinese isolates.

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Published in PLoS One on March 21, 2007

Authors

Chen Chen1, Jiaqi Tang, Wei Dong, Changjun Wang, Youjun Feng, Jing Wang, Feng Zheng, Xiuzhen Pan, Di Liu, Ming Li, Yajun Song, Xinxing Zhu, Haibo Sun, Tao Feng, Zhaobiao Guo, Aiping Ju, Junchao Ge, Yaqing Dong, Wen Sun, Yongqiang Jiang, Jun Wang, Jinghua Yan, Huanming Yang, Xiaoning Wang, George F Gao, Ruifu Yang, Jian Wang, Jun Yu

Author Affiliations

1: Beijing Genomics Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

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