Canada-Wide Epidemic of emm74 Group A Streptococcus Invasive Disease

BACKGROUND: The number of invasive group A Streptococcus (iGAS) infections due to hitherto extremely rare type emm74 strains has increased in several Canadian provinces since late 2015. We hypothesized that the cases recorded in the different provinces are linked and caused by strains of an emm74 cl...

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Published in:Open Forum Infect Dis
Main Authors: Teatero, Sarah, McGeer, Allison, Tyrrell, Gregory J, Hoang, Linda, Smadi, Hanan, Domingo, Marc-Christian, Levett, Paul N, Finkelstein, Michael, Dewar, Ken, Plevneshi, Agron, Athey, Taryn B T, Gubbay, Jonathan B, Mulvey, Michael R, Martin, Irene, Demczuk, Walter, Fittipaldi, Nahuel
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952926/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29780850
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy085
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