Emergent Invasive Group A Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis, United States, 2015–2018

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Chochua, Sopio ; Rivers, Joy ; Mathis, Saundra ; Li, Zhongya ; Velusamy, Srinivasan ; McGee, Lesley ; Van Beneden, Chris ; Li, Yuan ; Metcalf, Benjamin J. ; Beall, Bernard
• Description:
  The term group A Streptococcus is considered synonymous for the species Streptococcus pyogenes. We describe an emergent invasive S. dysgalactiae subspecies equisimilis lineage that obtained the group A antigen through a single ancestral recombination event between a group C S. dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis strain and a group A S. pyogenes strain.
• Subjects:
  Adult Aged Aged, 80 And Over Communicable Diseases, Emerging/Epidemiology Communicable Diseases, Emerging/History Communicable Diseases, Emerging/Microbiology Female Genes, Bacterial History, 21St Century Humans Male Middle Aged Phylogeny Streptococcal Infections/Epidemiology Streptococcal Infections/History Streptococcal Infections/Microbiology Streptococcus Pyogenes Virulence Factors Young Adult

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 25(8):1543-1547
• Pubmed ID:
  31158071
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6649341
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom
• Genre:
  Historical Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  25
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b171387949d6e3d0402f3d58adf4473c627235b57e753d06305205f12e79c2fe
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/80325/cdc_80325_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.97 MB ]