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SUBMITTER: Teatero S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5952926 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Teatero Sarah S McGeer Allison A Tyrrell Gregory J GJ Hoang Linda L Smadi Hanan H Domingo Marc-Christian MC Levett Paul N PN Finkelstein Michael M Dewar Ken K Plevneshi Agron A Athey Taryn B T TBT Gubbay Jonathan B JB Mulvey Michael R MR Martin Irene I Demczuk Walter W Fittipaldi Nahuel N
Open forum infectious diseases 20180420 5
<h4>Background</h4>The number of invasive group A <i>Streptococcus</i> (iGAS) infections due to hitherto extremely rare type <i>emm74</i> strains has increased in several Canadian provinces since late 2015. We hypothesized that the cases recorded in the different provinces are linked and caused by strains of an <i>emm74</i> clone that recently emerged and expanded explosively.<h4>Methods</h4>We analyzed both active and passive surveillance data for iGAS infections and used whole-genome sequencin ...[more]