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SUBMITTER: Towers RJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC525228 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Towers Rebecca J RJ Gal Daniel D McMillan David D Sriprakash Kadaba S KS Currie Bart J BJ Walker Mark J MJ Chhatwal Gursharan S GS Fagan Peter K PK
Journal of clinical microbiology 20041101 11
We report evidence of interspecies gene transfer between the important virulence factor genes sfbI and gfbA. Because the identified group G streptococcus gfbA types possess DNA cassettes that can be identified in a number of group A streptococcus strains, it appears that homologous recombination is occurring between these species. ...[more]