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Immunology of Streptococci

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Part of the book series: Comprehensive Immunology ((COMIMUN,volume 8))

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The wealth of antigens and of immune responses associated with streptococci has provided a wide choice of antibodies for clinical diagnosis of streptococcal infections, abundant materials and models for experimental immunologists and immunogeneticists, and a diversity of hypotheses about the pathogenesis of the nonsuppurative complications of streptococcal infections, acute nephritis and acute rheumatic fever.

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Wannamaker, L.W. (1981). Immunology of Streptococci. In: Nahmias, A.J., O’Reilly, R.J. (eds) Immunology of Human Infection. Comprehensive Immunology, vol 8. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1009-9_3

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