Microbiologia Medica (Dec 2008)

Typing of emm77 Streptococcus pyogenes strains isolated from different clinical samples

  • Claudio Palmieri,
  • Maria Stella Princivalli,
  • Lucilla Baldassarri,
  • Roberta Creti,
  • Pietro Emanuele Varaldo,
  • Bruna Facinelli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2008.2560
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 4

Abstract

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Population structure analysis of emm77 Streptococcus pyogenes isolates demonstrated that the Clonal Complex ST63/369, previously reported in Italian pharyngeal strains, can also be found in non-pharyngeal strains.The success of ST63/369 may be due to the association of specific resistance [iMLS-B/erm(A); tet(O)] and virulence [internalization-gene prtF1] traits.

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