Emergence of a New Highly Successful Acapsular Group A Streptococcus Clade of Genotype emm89 in the United Kingdom

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Summary

The genome remodeling in the new clade variant and the resultant altered phenotype appear to have conferred a selective advantage over other emm89 variants and may explain the changes observed in emm 89 GAS epidemiology.

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Published
2015-07-14
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Keywords

Clade, Biology, Multilocus sequence typing, Population, Genotype

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