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Cryptic prophages within a Streptococcus pyogenes genotype emm4 lineage.
Microbial genomics - 1 Jan 2021
Remmington Alex, Haywood Samuel, Edgar Julia, Green Luke R, de Silva Thushan, Turner Claire E
Abstract excerpt
The major human pathogen Streptococcus pyogenes shares an intimate evolutionary history with mobile genetic elements, which in many cases carry genes encoding bacterial virulence factors. During recent whole-genome sequencing of a longitudinal sample of S. pyogenes isolates in England, we identified a lineage within emm4 that clustered with the reference genome MEW427. Like MEW427, this lineage was characterized...
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