Extensive Diversity of Streptococcus pyogenes in a Remote Human Population Reflects Global-Scale Transmission Rather than Localised Diversification

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Towers, Rebecca J ^a,e   Carapetis, Jonathan R ^a,b   Currie, Bart J ^a   Davies, Mark R ^c   Walker, Mark J ^c   Dougan, Gordon ^d   Giffard, Philip M ^a  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e Peter Macauley Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ALLELES; AUSTRALIA; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 84884187306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073851     Document Type: Article

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