Transfer of scarlet fever-associated elements into the group A Streptococcus M1T1 clone

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ben Zakour, Nouri L ^a   Davies, Mark R ^a,b   You, Yuanhai ^c,d   Chen, Jonathan H K ^e,f   Forde, Brian M ^a   Stanton Cook, Mitchell ^a   Yang, Ruifu ^g   Cui, Yujun ^g   Barnett, Timothy C ^a   Venturini, Carola ^a   Ong, Cheryl Lynn Y ^a   Tse, Herman ^e,f   Dougan, Gordon ^b   Zhang, Jianzhong ^c,d   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^e,f   Beatson, Scott A ^a   Walker, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

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

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^g BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

CHINA; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCARLET FEVER; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIRULENCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYLOGENY; SCARLET FEVER; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84946607091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep15877     Document Type: Article

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