Population Genomics of <italic toggle="yes">emm4</italic> Group A <named-content content-type="genus-species">Streptococcus</named-content> Reveals Progressive Replacement with a Hypervirulent Clone in North America
ABSTRACT Clonal replacement is a major driver for changes in bacterial disease epidemiology. Recently, it has been proposed that episodic emergence of novel, hypervirulent clones of group A Streptococcus (GAS) results from acquisition of a 36-kb DNA region leading to increased expression of the cyto...
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Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2021-08-01
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Series: | mSystems |
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00495-21 |