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Platelet aggregation by Streptococcus pyogenes [PDF]

Infection and Immunity, 1983
Heat-killed group A Streptococcus pyogenes induced platelet aggregation in platelet-rich plasma. Aggregation was dependent upon the ratio of platelets to bacteria, with maximal aggregation occurring at 0.8 platelets per bacterium (final concentration, 300,000 per microliter).
Gretchen Kurpiewski, Lawrence J. Forrester, Barry J. Campbell, James T. Barrett   +3 more
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Streptococcus pyogenes carriage rate, associated factors and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles among urban and rural schoolchildren at Gondar city, Northwest Ethiopia [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Streptococcus pyogenes remains one of the top ten causes of mortality from infectious diseases. Children in low-income nations have high carrier rates of Streptococcus pyogenes, which can serve as a source of infections, including simple superficial ...
Yalewayker Gashaw, Alem Getaneh, Desie Kasew, Mitkie Tigabie, Baye Gelaw   +4 more
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Brain abscess caused by Streptococcus pyogenes with atypical symptoms: a case report and literature review [PDF]

BMC Pediatrics
Background Streptococcus pyogenes is a common gram-positive bacterium, belonging to group A Streptococcus (GAS), and is responsible for causing a range of clinical conditions.
Chun-Zhen Hua, Zhi-Peng Shen, Ming-Ming Zhou, Can Lai, Guan-Nan Bai, Wei-Zhong Gu, Yong-Ping Xie, Jin-Si Zhou, Wei-Lin Hu, Qiang Shu   +9 more
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The Deoxyribonucleases of Streptococcus pyogenes

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1964
Jeanette E. Winter, Alan W. Bernheimer
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Rapid evolution of virulence and drug resistance in the emerging zoonotic pathogen Streptococcus suis [PDF]

, 2009
Background: Streptococcus suis is a zoonotic pathogen that infects pigs and can occasionally cause serious infections in humans. S. suis infections occur sporadically in human Europe and North America, but a recent major outbreak has been described in ...
AHT, Amsterdam, Barrell, B G, Bentley, S, Cambridge, Chanter, N, Cherevach, I, Chieu, T B, Chinh, N T, Copenhagen, Cronin, A, Croucher, N J, Diep, T S, Dowson, C G, Goodhead, I, Gottschalk, M, Hauser, H, Holden, M T, Hospital For Tropical Diseases, Vietnam, Imperial College London, Iversen, P, Kehoe, M, Leigh, J A, Mai, N T, Maskell, D J, Mungall, K, National Institute For Communicable Disease, Newcastle, Ngo, T H, Nottingham, Oxford, Parkhill, J, Price, C, Quail, M A, Rabbinowitsch, E, Sanders, M, Schultz, C, Sharp, S, Slater, J D, Smith, H E, Spratt, B G, Universite de Montreal, Canada, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands, Ward, P N, Warwick, Wellcome Trust, Whatmore, A M, Xu, J, Ye, C   +48 more
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A Review article of Streptococcus pyogenes infection: Rick factors, prevention and management strategies

مجلة كلية الطب, 2023
Background:-Streptococcus pyogenes is an exclusively human pathogen. This bacterial species is responsible for a large variety of infections. Objective: This review identified published articles on the risk factors, prevention and control strategies ...
Maryam k. Ali, shaimaa jawad, Yasmeen J. Al-Bayaa   +2 more
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Increase in invasive group A streptococcal infections and emergence of novel, rapidly expanding sub-lineage of the virulent Streptococcus pyogenes M1 clone, Denmark, 2023

Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2023
A highly virulent sub-lineage of the Streptococcus pyogenes M1 clone has been rapidly expanding throughout Denmark since late 2022 and now accounts for 30% of the new invasive group A streptococcal infections.
T. Johannesen, Charlotte Munkstrup, S. Edslev, Sharmin Baig, Stine Nielsen, T. Funk, Dennis Karsten Kristensen, Lars Hervig Jacobsen, Signe Fischer Ravn, Niels Bindslev, S. Gubbels, M. Voldstedlund, P. Jokelainen, Søren Hallstrøm, A. Rasmussen, K. Kristinsson, David Fuglsang-Damgaard, R. Dessau, Agnieszka Barbara Olsén, C. Jensen, Annette Skovby, S. Ellermann-Eriksen, T. G. Jensen, E. Dzajic, C. Østergaard, Steen Lomborg Andersen, S. Hoffmann, P. Andersen, M. Stegger   +28 more
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Increase in invasive group A streptococcal (Streptococcus pyogenes) infections (iGAS) in young children in the Netherlands, 2022

Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2023
In 2022, a sevenfold increase in the number of notifiable invasive Streptococcus pyogenes (iGAS) infections among children aged 0–5 years was observed in the Netherlands compared with pre-COVID-19 pandemic years.
B. de Gier, Niek Marchal, Ilse de Beer-Schuurman, M. T. te Wierik, M. Hooiveld, H. D. de Melker, N. V. van Sorge   +6 more
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Detection of Streptococcus pyogenes M1UK in Australia and characterization of the mutation driving enhanced expression of superantigen SpeA

Nature Communications, 2023
A variant of group A Streptococcus serotype M1 (UK) has been increasingly reported and can be differentiated from the global variant by its overexpression of the superantigen SpeA.
M. Davies, N. Keller, Stephan Brouwer, Magnus G. Jespersen, A. J. Cork, Andrew J. Hayes, Miranda E. Pitt, David M. P. De Oliveira, Nichaela Harbison-Price, Olivia M. Bertolla, Daniel G. Mediati, B. Curren, G. Taiaroa, J. Lacey, Helen V. Smith, N. Fang, L. Coin, K. Stevens, S. Tong, M. Sanderson-Smith, J. Tree, Adam D. Irwin, K. Grimwood, B. Howden, A. Jennison, M. Walker   +25 more
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A Review of Streptococcus pyogenes: Public Health Risk Factors, Prevention and Control

Pathogens, 2021
Streptococcus pyogenes, (colloquially named “group A streptococcus” (GAS)), is a pathogen of public health significance, infecting 18.1 million people worldwide and resulting in 500,000 deaths each year.
Nelly Janira Avire, Harriet Whiley, K. Ross   +2 more
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