Article
Rapid expansion and international spread of M1UK in the post-pandemic upsurge of Streptococcus pyogenes infections in United Kingdom
2024-01-18
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>The UK observed a marked increase in scarlet fever and invasive group A streptococcal infection in 2022 with severe outcomes in children and similar trends worldwide. Here we report lineage M1UK to be the dominant source of invasive infections in this upsurge and associated with pleural empyema. Compared with ancestral M1global strains, invasive M1UK strains exhibited reduced genomic di...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ea358a02-2339-52ca-90c5-6897ce2840ec
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3842890/v1
