Emergence of scarlet fever streptococcus pyogenes emm12 clones in hong kong is associated with toxin acquisition and multidrug resistance

Nature Genetics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 84-87

  Davies, Mark R ^a,b   Holden, Matthew T ^b   Coupland, Paul ^b   Chen, Jonathan H K ^c   Venturini, Carola ^a   Barnett, Timothy C ^a   Zakour, Nouri L Ben ^a   Tse, Herman ^c,d,e   Dougan, Gordon ^b   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^c,d,e   Walker, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; SUPERANTIGEN; TETRACYCLINE; TOXIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; ERYTHROGENIC TOXIN; EXOTOXIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; STREPTOCOCCAL M PROTEIN; STREPTOCOCCAL SUPERANTIGEN SSA;

ACCESSORY GENOME; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MACROLIDE RESISTANCE; MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; SCARLET FEVER; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; TRANSPOSON; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION RATE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EXOTOXINS; GENETIC DRIFT; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION RATE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROPHAGES; SCARLET FEVER; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85027933961     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3147     Document Type: Article

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