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Surrogacy in Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Group A Streptococcus [Letter]

Infection and Drug Resistance, 2023
Harit Kumar,1 Nitin Kumar2 1Department of Microbiology, Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be) University Mullana, Mullana, Haryana, India; 2Department of Microbiology, Xavier ...
Kumar H, Kumar N
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Rhamnose polysaccharide-decorated outer membrane vesicles as a vaccine candidate targeting Group A Streptococcus from Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis

Vaccine: X
Group A Streptococcus (Strep A) cause a wide range of human-exclusive infections, annually killing more than 500,000 people. Antibiotic resistance incidence of invasive Strep A tripled in the past decade and emphasises the need to develop a universal ...
Sowmya Ajay Castro, Sarah Thomson, Helen Alexandra Shaw, Azul Zorzoli, Benjamin H. Meyer, Mark Reglinski, Mark McNeil, Helge C. Dorfmueller   +7 more
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Aspecific complaints of a gastrostomy feeding tube caused by Group A Streptococcus.

Gastroenterology Insights, 2009
A seven-year old girl with a gastrostomy feeding tube presented with aspecific symptoms such as discomfort and a foul smell. No cause could be found but a culture revealed Group A Streptococcus.
Tjalling W. de Vries, Tina E. Faber
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The Arginine Deiminase Pathway Impacts Antibiotic Tolerance during Biofilm-Mediated Streptococcus pyogenes Infections

mBio, 2020
Bacterial biofilms are responsible for a variety of serious human infections and are notoriously difficult to treat due to their recalcitrance to antibiotics.
Jeffrey A. Freiberg, Yoann Le Breton, Janette M. Harro, Devon L. Allison, Kevin S. McIver, Mark E. Shirtliff   +5 more
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Death or survival from invasive pneumococcal disease in Scotland: associations with serogroups and multilocus sequence types [PDF]

, 2011
We describe associations between death from invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and particular serogroups and sequence types (STs) determined by multilocus sequence typing (MLST) using data from Scotland.
Andrew Smith, Aspa, Austrian, Avery, Blake, Cecil, Chris Robertson, David Greenhalgh, Diggle, Donald Inverarity, Giles F. S. Edwards, Guimbao Bescós, Huss, Inostroza, Jim McMenamin, Johanna M. C. Jefferies, Karen Lamb, Kendrick, Lamb, Martin, Mathew Diggle, Shapiro, Stuart C. Clarke, Tim J. Mitchell, Weiss   +24 more
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Pneumococcal carriage, serotype distribution and risk factors in children with community-acquired pneumonia, 5 years after introduction of the 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Ethiopia [PDF]

, 2019
Background: There is a scarcity of data on pneumococcal serotypes carried by children in Ethiopia. We studied pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage rate, serotypes, and risk factors among children with community acquired pneumonia (CAP).
Abebe, Workeabeba, Aseffa, Abraham, Asrat, Daniel, Gebre, Meseret, Hailemariam, Tewodros, Negash, Abel Abera, Vaneechoutte, Mario, Verhaegen, Jan   +7 more
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Efficacy of Alum-Adjuvanted Peptide and Carbohydrate Conjugate Vaccine Candidates against Group A Streptococcus Pharyngeal Infection in a Non-Human Primate Model

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Vaccine development against group A Streptococcus (GAS) has gained traction in the last decade, fuelled by recognition of the significant worldwide burden of the disease.
Tania Rivera-Hernandez, Diane G. Carnathan, Johanna Richter, Patrick Marchant, Amanda J. Cork, Gayathiri Elangovan, Anna Henningham, Jason N. Cole, Biswa Choudhury, Peter M. Moyle, Istvan Toth, Michael R. Batzloff, Michael F. Good, Paresh Agarwal, Neeraj Kapoor, Victor Nizet, Guido Silvestri, Mark J. Walker   +17 more
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Influence of chronic azithromycin treatment on the composition of the oropharyngeal microbial community in patients with severe asthma [PDF]

, 2017
Background: This study of the oropharyngeal microbiome complements the previously published AZIthromycin in Severe ASThma (AZISAST) clinical trial, where the use of azithromycin was assessed in subjects with exacerbationprone severe asthma.
Brusselle, Guy, Dauwe, Kenny, Deschaght, Pieter, Deschepper, Ellen, Joos, Guy, Jordens, Paul, Lopes dos Santos Santiago, Guido, Vaneechoutte, Dries, Vaneechoutte, Mario, Verhofstede, Chris   +9 more
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Correlation between dental caries experience and mutans streptococci counts using saliva and plaque as microbial risk indicators in 3-8 year old children. A cross Sectional study [PDF]

, 2015
Objectives: Determination of the relative amounts of mutans streptococcus in both saliva and plaque and to study its correlation with dental caries in children.
Deep-Singh-Nanda, Kanwar, Nanda, Jasmine, Sachdev, Vinod, Sandhu, Meera   +3 more
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Group A Streptococcal S Protein Utilizes Red Blood Cells as Immune Camouflage and Is a Critical Determinant for Immune Evasion. [PDF]

, 2019
Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is a human-specific pathogen that evades the host immune response through the elaboration of multiple virulence factors. Although many of these factors have been studied, numerous proteins encoded by the GAS genome are of ...
Campeau, Anaamika, Dehaini, Diana, Fang, Ronnie H, Gonzalez, David J, Greene, Trever, Holay, Maya, Lamsa, Anne, LaRock, Christopher N, Pogliano, Kit, Sands, Jenna S, Wei, Xiaoli, Wierzbicki, Igor H, Ying, Man, Zhang, Liangfang, Zuniga, Elina   +14 more
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