Molecular epidemiological characteristics of Streptococcus pyogenes strains involved in an outbreak of scarlet fever in China, 2011

Biomedical and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 877-885

  You, Yuan Hai ^a   Song, Yan Yan ^b   Yan, Xiao Mei ^a   Wang, Hai Bin ^b   Zhang, Meng Han ^d   Tao, Xiao Xia ^a   Li, Lei Lei ^b   Zhang, Yu Xin ^a   Jiang, Xi Hong ^b   Zhang, Bing Hua ^a   Zhou, Hao ^c   Xiao, Di ^a   Jin, Lian Mei ^b   Feng, Zi Jian ^b   Luo, Feng Ji ^b   Zhang, Jian Zhong ^a  

^a National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c Harbin Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^d Suzhou Center for Disease Prevention and Control   (China)

Author keywords

Scarlet fever Streptococcus pyogenes Molecular epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCARLET FEVER; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VIRULENCE;

MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SCARLET FEVER; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SCARLET FEVER; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84890445803     PISSN: 08953988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3967/bes2013.016     Document Type: Article

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