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Characterization of Streptococcus pyogenes from Animal Clinical Specimens, Spain.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2017
Vela Ana Isabel, Villalón Pilar, Sáez-Nieto Juan Antonio, Chacón Gema, Domínguez Lucas, Fernández-Garayzábal José Francisco
Abstract excerpt
Streptococcus pyogenes appears to be almost exclusively restricted to humans, with few reports on isolation from animals. We provide a detailed characterization (emm typing, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis [PFGE], and multilocus sequence typing [MLST]) of 15 S. pyogenes isolates from animals associated with different clinical backgrounds. We also investigated erythromycin resistance mechanisms and phenotypes and...
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