One hypervirulent clone, sequence type 283, accounts for a large proportion of invasive Streptococcus agalactiae isolated from humans and diseased tilapia in Southeast Asia

• Main Authors: Barkham, Timothy, Zadoks, Ruth N., Azmai, Mohammad Noor Amal, Baker, Stephen, Bich, Vu Thi Ngoc, Chalker, Victoria, Chau, Man Ling, Dance, David, Deepak, Rama Narayana, Doorn, H. Rogier Van, Gutierrez, Ramona A., Holmes, Mark A., Huong, Lan Nguyen Phu, Koh, Tse Hsien, Martins, Elisabete, Mehershahi, Kurosh, Newton, Paul, Ng, Lee Ching, Phuoc, Nguyen Ngoc, Sangwichian, Ornuma, Sawatwong, Pongpun, Surin, Uraiwan, Tan, Thean Yen, Tang, Wen Ying, Thuy, Nguyen Vu, Turner, Paul, Vongsouvath, Manivanh, Zhang, Defeng, WhistlerI, Toni, Chen, Swaine L.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2019
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/81541/1/One%20hypervirulent%20clone%2C%20sequence%20type%20283%2C%20accounts%20for%20a%20large%20proportion%20of%20invasive%20Streptococcus%20agalactiae%20isolated%20from%20humans%20and%20diseased%20tilapia%20in%20Southeast%20Asia.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/81541/; https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0007421

Background: In 2015, Singapore had the first and only reported foodborne outbreak of invasive disease caused by the group B Streptococcus (GBS; Streptococcus agalactiae). Disease, predominantly septic arthritis and meningitis, was associated with sequence type (ST)283, acquired from eating raw farme...