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GAS

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GASGasoline
GASGames And Sports
GASGastonia (Amtrak station code; Gastonia, NC)
GASGovernment Auditing Standards
GASGood Academic Standing (various organizations)
GASGeneral Adaptation Syndrome
GASGreetings and Salutations
GASGroup A Streptococci (bacteria)
GASGermany, Austria, Switzerland (group of countries)
GASGlobal Assessment Scale
GASGear Acquisition Syndrome (mainly bass guitarists) :-)
GASGerman Air Service
GASGuitar Acquisition Syndrome
GASGoal Attainment Scaling (patient evaluation tool)
GASGarden Art Show (Colorado)
GASGreat American Smokeout
GASGlobally Asymptotically Stable
GASGlass Art Society
GASGrowth Arrest-Specific
GASGPS Antenna System
GASGeneral Administrative Service (Philippines)
GASGlobal Address Space (programming)
GASGenetic Algorithm Solution
GASGet Away Special (Space Shuttle)
GASGerman Academy of Science
GASGuilty As Sin :-)
GASGlobal Attribute Schema
GASGround Application Software
GASGoogle Adsense
GASGeneral Audit Software
GASGeneral Anthroposophical Society
GASGoogle Apps Script (JavaScript and Google, Inc.)
GASGroupe d'Anthropologie Scolastique (French: Scholastic Anthropology Group)
GASGround Analysis Software
GASGovernment against Society
GASGovernance Advisory Service (Australia)
GASGunner's Auxiliary Sight (secondary optics on an M-1 Abrams tank)
GASGadget Acquisition Syndrome
GASGigantic Art Space (est. 2003; New York)
GASGovernment Account Series
GASGrind Ambition Success
GASGeneral Adaptive Syndrome
GASGalactic Alliance Security (Star Wars)
GASGong Appreciation Society
GASGabardan Athlétique Sport (French: Gabardan Athletic Sport; Gabardan, France)
GASGraef, Anhalt, Schloemer and Associates Inc.
GASGroupe Accueil Solidarité (French: Solidarity Group Home)
GASGNU Assembler Format (GNU software project)
GASGuild of All Souls
GASGate Allocation System
GASGeneral Air Staff
GASGraduate Assessment Survey
GASGeometric Analysis of Sections
GASGeneral Appraisal System
GASGeospatial Annotation Services
GASGeneral Automotive Support
GASGatewick Aviation Services (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
GASGround Aided Seeker
GASGroup A, B-Hemolytic Streptococci bacteria
GASGorizia Automoto Storiche (Italian automobile club; Gorizia, Italy)
GASGhanaian Association of Sacramento (California)
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References in periodicals archive
Olmsted, "Immunization with C5a peptidase from either group A or B streptococci enhances clearance of group A streptococci from intranasally infected mice," Vaccine, vol.
The prevalence of Group A Streptococci in the paediatric patients presenting with fever and throat pain in Govt.
(2011) New 30-valent M protein-based vaccine evokes cross-opsonic antibodies against non-vaccine serotypes of group A streptococci. Vaccine 29, 8175-8178.
Virulence factors of the group A streptococci and genes that regulate their expression.
* BACKGROUND Erythromycin is recommended for treatment of group A streptococci in persons who are allergic to penicillin.
In the case of group C streptococci, the reason it should be differentiated from group A streptococci was discussed and recommendations to avoid pitfalls in differentiation (such as trying to interpret bacitracin disk results on a primary plate) were addressed.
Through research, we have learned that there are more than 80 different variants of group A streptococci, each producing its own unique proteins.
Group A streptococci from carriage and disease in Portugal: evolution of antimicrobial resistance and T antigenic types during 2000-2002.
Schrock has outlined quite well the current theories about treatment failures in patients with streptococcal pharyngitis: the development of erythromycin-resistant (but not penicillin-resistant) strains of group A streptococci, the development of tolerance to penicillin, the presence of [beta]-lactamase organisms in the pharynx which inactivate penicillin, and the failure of patients to comply with treatment recommendations.[3] The problem of erythromycin resistance is real.
GCS/GGS was more frequently recovered from the throat than group A streptococci (GAS [S.
Current knowledge of the type specific M antigens of group A streptococci. J Immunol.
pyogenes has never been observed to date, the increasing rates of macrolide-resistant group A streptococci (MRGAS) pose considerable clinical problems in many countries (4).
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