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Molecular characterisation of <i>Streptococcus pyogenes</i> (StrepA) non-invasive isolates during the 2022-23 UK upsurge
2024-05-03
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At the end of 2022 into early 2023 the UK Health Security Agency reported unusually high levels of scarlet fever and invasive disease caused by Streptococcus pyogenes (StrepA or group A Streptococcus ). During this time, we collected and genome sequenced 341 non-invasive throat and skin S. pyogenes isolates identified during routine clinical diagnostic testing in Sheffield, a large UK city. We compared the data...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0019662c-baa3-5556-9003-0c242bcb7fb8
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.05.02.592214
