TY - JOUR
AU - Brown, Christopher
AU - Olsen, Randall
AU - Fittipaldi, Nahuel
AU - Morman, Monica
AU - Fort, Peter
AU - Neuwirth, Robert
AU - Majeed, Mohammed
AU - Woodward, William
AU - Musser, James
T1 - Spread of Virulent Group A Streptococcus Type emm59 from Montana to Wyoming, USA
T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal
PY - 2014
VL - 20
IS - 4
SP - 658
SN - 1080-6059
AB - Full-genome sequencing showed that a recently emerged and hypervirulent clone of group A Streptococcus type emm59 active in Canada and parts of the United States has now caused severe invasive infections in rural northeastern Wyoming. Phylogenetic analysis of genome data indicated that the strain was likely introduced from Montana.
KW - group A Streptococcus
KW - GAS
KW - bacteria
KW - emm59
KW - streptococci
KW - invasive disease
KW - virulence
KW - genome sequencing
KW - epidemiology
KW - necrotizing fasciitis
KW - Montana
KW - Wyoming
KW - United States
DO - 10.3201/eid2004.130564
UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/4/13-0564_article
ER - End of Reference