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<i>Streptococcus pyogenes</i> Isolates Causing Severe Infections in Norway in 2006 to 2007: <i>emm</i> Types, Multilocus Sequence Types, and Superantigen Profiles
31 Dec 2009
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To investigate the epidemiological patterns and genetic characteristics of disease caused by group A Streptococcus (GAS), all available isolates from invasive cases in Norway during 2006 to 2007 (262 isolates) were subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility testing, T serotyping, emm typing, and multilocus sequence typing and screened for known streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin (Spe) genes, smeZ, and ssa. The...
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