An emm5 Group A Streptococcal Outbreak Among Workers in a Factory Manufacturing Telephone Accessories

An emm5 Group A Streptococcal Outbreak Among Workers in a Factory Manufacturing Telephone Accessories

Ranked among the top10 infectious causes of death worldwide, group A Streptococcus (GAS) causes small- and large-scale outbreaks, depending on the trigger as transmission of a GAS strain or expansion of predominant clones. In China, GAS infections other than scarlet fever are not notifiable. In Shan...

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Main Authors: Mingliang Chen, Wenqing Wang, Lihong Tu, Yaxu Zheng, Hao Pan, Gangyi Wang, Yanxin Chen, Xi Zhang, Linying Zhu, Jian Chen, Min Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Streptococcus pyogenes
emm5
factory
outbreak
pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE)
whole genome sequence
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01156/full

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