Detection of Epidemic Scarlet Fever Group A Streptococcus in Australia.

Authors :: Walker MJ
Brouwer S
Forde BM
Worthing KA
McIntyre L
Sundac L
Maloney S
Roberts LW
Barnett TC
Richter J
Cork AJ
Irwin AD
You Y
Zhang J
Dougan G
Yuen KY
Nizet V
Beatson SA
Grimwood K
Davies MR
Source :: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America [Clin Infect Dis] 2019 Sep 13; Vol. 69 (7), pp. 1232-1234.
Publication Year :: 2019
Abstract: Sentinel hospital surveillance was instituted in Australia to detect the presence of pandemic group A Streptococcus strains causing scarlet fever. Genomic and phylogenetic analyses indicated the presence of an Australian GAS emm12 scarlet fever isolate related to United Kingdom outbreak strains. National surveillance to monitor this pandemic is recommended.<br /> (© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.)

Subjects :: Australia epidemiology
Computational Biology methods
Disease Outbreaks
Genome, Bacterial
Genomics methods
Humans
Phylogeny
Population Surveillance
Scarlet Fever diagnosis
Scarlet Fever epidemiology
Scarlet Fever microbiology
Streptococcus pyogenes classification
Streptococcus pyogenes genetics

Language :: English
ISSN :: 1537-6591
Volume :: 69
Issue :: 7
Database :: MEDLINE
Journal :: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Publication Type :: Academic Journal
Accession number :: 30721938
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz099