Genome sequence analysis of emm89 Streptococcus pyogenes strains causing infections in Scotland, 2010-2016.

CONCLUSIONS: The clade 3 clone causes virtually all-contemporary emm89 infections in Scotland. These findings add Scotland to a growing list of countries of Europe and North America where, by whole genome sequencing, emm89 clade 3 strains have been demonstrated to be the cause of an ongoing epidemic of invasive infections and to be genetically related due to descent from a recent common progenitor. PMID: 29099690 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29099690?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - November 3, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Beres SB, Olsen RJ, Ojeda Saavedra M, Ure R, Reynolds A, Lindsay DSJ, Smith AJ, Musser JM Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research

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