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Streptococcus pyogenes emm and T types within a decade, 1996-2005: implications for epidemiology and future vaccines.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Jan 2010
Nir-Paz R, Korenman Z, Ron M, Michael-Gayego A, Cohen-Poradosu R, Valinsky L, Beall B, Moses A E
Abstract excerpt
Streptococcus pyogenes group A (GAS) is a primary human pathogen. We performed genetic emm sequence and serological T-antigen typing of 819 mostly invasive GAS isolates recovered in Israel during 1996-2005. Of the 72 emm types found, the six most prevalent types (1, 81, 89, 14, 28, 5) comprised 30.2% of all isolates, and emm-type changes were observed over the years. The predicted coverage of the 26-valent S....
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