Enhanced nasopharyngeal infection and shedding associated with an epidemic lineage of emm3 group A Streptococcus

Background: A group A Streptococcus (GAS) lineage of genotype emm3, sequence type 15 (ST15) was associated with a 6 month upsurge in invasive GAS disease in the UK. The epidemic lineage (Lineage C) had lost 2 typical emm3 prophages, Φ315.1 and Φ315.2 associated with the superantigen ssa, but gained...

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Autores principales: Afshar, Baharak, Turner, Claire E., Lamagni, Theresa L., Smith, Ken C., Al-Shahib, Ali, Underwood, Anthony, Holden, Matthew T. G., Efstratiou, Androulla, Sriskandan, Shiranee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2017
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Research Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5711448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28459299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2017.1325070

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5711448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28459299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2017.1325070

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