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High diversity of group A streptococcal emm types among healthy schoolchildren in Ethiopia.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 15 May 2006
Abdissa Alemseged, Asrat Daniel, Kronvall Göran, Shittu Belay, Achiko Dilachew, Zeidan Mohammed, Yamuah Lawrence K, Aseffa Abraham
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BACKGROUND: Although the prevalence of rheumatic heart disease in Ethiopia is one of the highest in the world, the epidemiology of group A streptococci (GAS) in this country is little known. GAS typing is a hallmark of both the epidemiology and understanding of diseases caused by these organisms....
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