Group A Streptococcus emm Gene Types in Pharyngeal Isolates, Ontario, Canada, 2002–2010
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Group A Streptococcus emm Gene Types in Pharyngeal Isolates, Ontario, Canada, 2002–2010
Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is a human-adapted pathogen that causes a variety of diseases, including pharyngitis and invasive infections. GAS strains are categorized by variation in the nucleotide sequence of the gene (emm) that encodes the M protein. To identify the emm types of GAS strains causing pharyngitis in Ontario, Canada, we sequenced the hypervariable region of the emm gene in 4,635 p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1080-6040
DOI: 10.3201/eid1711.110159