Detection of Epidemic Scarlet Fever Group A Streptococcus in Australia

Affiliations

• ¹ Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
• ² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Victoria, Australia.
• ³ Pathology Queensland, Gold Coast Laboratory, Brisbane, Australia.
• ⁴ University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, Brisbane, Australia.
• ⁵ Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
• ⁶ State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Collaborative Innovation, Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing.
• ⁷ Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• ⁸ Department of Microbiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
• ⁹ Research Centre of Infection and Immunology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
• ¹⁰ State Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
• ¹¹ Division of Host-Microbe Systems and Therapeutics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.
• ¹² Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast.
• ¹³ Departments of Infectious Diseases and Pediatrics, Gold Coast Health, Queensland, Australia.