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Virulence of Skin Strains of Nephritogenic Group A Streptococci: New M Protein Serotypes¹

From the Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee

Abstract

Studies of strains of group A streptococci from a population of patients with pyoderma and a high incidence of acute glomerulonephritis revealed the presence of many apparently virulent strains which could not be identified as belonging to known M protein serotypes. One of these, the Baker strain, has been identified so far as an apparently new M serotype which we suggest be designated provisional type 56.

Footnotes

This research was supported in part by United States Public Health Service Research Grant HE 09561, National Heart Institute, and by United States Public Health Service Training Grant AI 00320, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

² Dr. Johnson participated in this study as a trainee of United States Public Health Service Grant AI 00320.

³ Dr. Baskin participated in this study as a trainee of United States Public Health Service Grant AM 05055.

⁴ Dr. Beachey participated in this study as a postdoctoral fellow of the Arthritis Foundation.