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Emergent emm4 group A Streptococcus evidences a survival strategy during interaction with immune effector cells.
Infection and immunity - 11 Jul 2024
Odo Chioma M, Vega Luis A, Mukherjee Piyali, DebRoy Sruti, Flores Anthony R, Shelburne Samuel A
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The major gram-positive pathogen group A Streptococcus (GAS) is a model organism for studying microbial epidemics as it causes waves of infections. Since 1980, several GAS epidemics have been ascribed to the emergence of clones producing increased amounts of key virulence factors such as streptolysin O (SLO). Herein, we sought to identify mechanisms underlying our recently identified temporal clonal emergence...
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