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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Jabang, S., Erhart, A., Darboe, S., Baldeh, A. K., Delforge, V., Watson, G., … Keeley, A. (2021). Molecular epidemiology of group a streptococcus infections in the Gambia. Vaccines, 9(2), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9020124
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