Added value of the emm-cluster typing system to analyze group a streptococcus epidemiology in high-income settings

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1651-1652

  Shulman, Stanford T ^a,c   Tanz, Robert R ^b,c   Dale, James B ^d,e   Steer, Andrew C ^f,g,h   Smeesters, Pierre R ^f,g  

^a Division of Infectious Disease   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^h ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; M PROTEIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CARRIER PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; STREPTOCOCCAL M PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; EMM GENE; GENE CLUSTER; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; UNITED STATES; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; NEW CALEDONIA; NORTH AMERICA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER PROTEINS; HUMANS; NEW CALEDONIA; NORTH AMERICA; PHARYNGITIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 84924420788     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu649     Document Type: Letter

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