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Novel <i>emm</i> 4 lineage associated with an upsurge in invasive group A streptococcal disease in the Netherlands, 2022
2023-01-02
Abstract excerpt
Invasive group A streptococcal (iGAS) disease cases increased in the first half year of 2022 in the Netherlands with a remarkably high proportion of emm 4 isolates. Whole-genome sequence analysis of 66 emm 4 isolates, 40 isolates from the pre-COVID-19-pandemic period 2009-2019 and 26 contemporary isolates from 2022, identified a novel Streptococcus pyogenes lineage (M4 NL22 ), which accounted for 85% emm 4 iG...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 744be4f2-a7ba-5c08-9d44-34a76a7affb2
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.12.31.522331
