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Nationwide upsurge in invasive disease in the context of longitudinal surveillance of carriage and invasive<i>Streptococcus pyogenes</i>2009-2023, the Netherlands: a molecular epidemiological study
2024-05-17
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> Since 2022, many countries reported an upsurge in invasive group A streptococcal (iGAS) infections. We explored whether changes in S. pyogenes carriage rates or emergence of more virulent strains, such as emm 1 variants M1 UK and M1 DK , contributed to the 2022/2023 surge in the Netherlands. <h4>Methods</h4> We determined emm (sub)type distribution for 2,698 invasive and 351 S...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2583bc05-c969-5748-851f-e2185965de5f
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- 10.1101/2024.05.16.24307270
