Molecular analysis of group A streptococcal isolates associated with scarlet fever in southern Taiwan between 1993 and 2002.
Collected between 1993 and 2002 at a Taiwanese university hospital, 77 group A streptococcus isolates associated with scarlet fever were grouped by emm typing and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. The predominance of an emm1 clone before 1996 and the presence of genetically diverse emm1 and emm4 strains thereafter were found.
Yan
Jing-Jou
JJ
Department of Pathology, College of Medicine National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Liu
Ching-Chuan
CC
Ko
Wen-Chien
WC
Hsu
Shui-Yuan
SY
Wu
Hsiu-Mei
HM
Lin
Yee-Shin
YS
Lin
Ming T
MT
Chuang
Woei-Jer
WJ
Wu
Jiunn-Jong
JJ
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D004917:Erythromycin / Q000494:pharmacology; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D012541:Scarlet Fever / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D013297:Streptococcus pyogenes / Q000145:classification* / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics*; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D002352:Carrier Proteins; C014689:streptococcal M protein; D004917:Erythromycin