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Group A Streptococcus emm gene types in pharyngeal isolates, Ontario, Canada, 2002-2010.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Nov 2011
Shea Patrick R, Ewbank Amy L, Gonzalez-Lugo Javier H, Martagon-Rosado Alexandro J, Martinez-Gutierrez Juan C, Rehman Hina A, Serrano-Gonzalez Monica, Fittipaldi Nahuel, Beres Stephen B, Flores Anthony R, Low Donald E, Willey Barbara M, Musser James M
Abstract excerpt
Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is a human-adapted pathogen that causes a variety of diseases, including pharyngitis and invasive infections. GAS strains are categorized by variation in the nucleotide sequence of the gene (emm) that encodes the M protein. To identify the emm types of GAS strains causing pharyngitis in Ontario, Canada, we sequenced the hypervariable region of the emm gene in 4,635 pharyngeal GAS...
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