Jabang, S., Erhart, A., Darboe, S. et al. (10 more authors) (2021) Molecular epidemiology of group A streptococcus infections in The Gambia. Vaccines, 9 (2). 124. ISSN 2076-393X
Abstract
Molecular epidemiological data on Group A Streptococcus (GAS) infection in Africa is scarce. We characterized the emm-types and emm-clusters of 433 stored clinical GAS isolates from The Gambia collected between 2004 and 2018. To reduce the potential for strain mistyping, we used a newly published primer for emm-typing. There was considerable strain diversity, highlighting the need for vaccine development offering broad strain protection.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | group A streptococcus; emm-type; emm-cluster; vaccine; The Gambia |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Biosciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2022 15:58 |
Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2023 02:36 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI AG |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/vaccines9020124 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:173577 |
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