Emergence of a new highly successful acapsular group a Streptococcus clade of genotype emm89 in the United Kingdom

mBio

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Turner, Claire E ^a   Abbott, James ^a   Lamagni, Theresa ^b   Holden, Matthew T G ^c,d   David, Sophia ^a,c   Jones, Michael D ^a,e   Game, Laurence ^e   Efstratiou, Androulla ^b   Sriskandan, Shiranee ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOSIDASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; STREPTOLYSIN; STREPTOLYSIN O; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMEZ GENE; SPEC GENE; SPEJ GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE SUBSP. EQUISIMILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; UNITED KINGDOM; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR TYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; NAD+ NUCLEOSIDASE; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOLYSINS; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84940856306     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00622-15     Document Type: Article

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