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by Jonathan B Weitzman

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Comparative genomics identifies genes associated with Streptococcus strains that cause acute rheumatic fever.

Email: Jonathan B Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020403-01

Group A Streptococcus (GAS) infection by serotype M18 strains causes acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and can lead to pediatric heart disease. In the April 2 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, James Smoot and colleagues at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases report the genome sequence of a GAS strain (MGAS8232) isolated from a patient with ARF (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2002, 99:4668-4673).


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