Incompetence of Neutrophils to Invasive Group A streptococcus Is Attributed to Induction of Plural Virulence Factors by Dysfunction of a Regulator

• Manabu Ato ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Manabu Ato, Tadayoshi Ikebe

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tadayoshi Ikebe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Manabu Ato, Tadayoshi Ikebe

  * E-mail: tdikebe@nih.go.jp

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hiroki Kawabata,

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Toshitada Takemori,

  Affiliation Laboratory for Immunological Memory, Riken Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Yokohama-City, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Haruo Watanabe

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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