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Prevalent emm types and superantigen gene patterns of group A Streptococcus in Thailand.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Mar 2016
Paveenkittiporn W, Nozawa T, Dejsirilert S, Nakagawa I, Hamada S
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Group A Streptococcus (GAS) are globally distributed bacterial pathogens. We examined the emm genotypes, which are important indicators of virulence, of 349 clinical GAS isolates collected using two surveillance systems, i.e. Invasive Bacterial Infection Surveillance (IBIS) from 2010 to 2011 (234 isolates) and routine surveillance of clinically isolated bacteria from various hospitals during 1996-2011 (115...
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