Toward an Understanding of Group A Streptococcal Transmission Dynamics Using National-level Surveillance

Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Mar 17;70(7):1482-1483. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz718.

Authors

Anthony R Flores¹, Samuel A Shelburne²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Genomics, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, Texas.
² Departments of Infectious Diseases and Genomic Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.

PMID: 31408107
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciz718

No abstract available

Keywords: group A Streptococcus; molecular epidemiology; transmission; whole genome sequencing.

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MeSH terms

Humans
Population Surveillance
Streptococcal Infections* / epidemiology
Streptococcus pyogenes*
United States