Open AccessIsolation of Streptococcus pyogenes from children with pharyngitis and emm type analysis
Author(s) -
Azar Dokht Khosravi,
Nasim Ebrahimifard,
Ahmad Shamsizadeh,
Saeed Shoja
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of the chinese medical association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.535
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1728-7731
pISSN - 1726-4901
DOI - 10.1016/j.jcma.2016.01.002
Subject(s) - typing , streptococcus pyogenes , pharyngitis , microbiology and biotechnology , polymerase chain reaction , penicillin , erythromycin , streptococcus , throat , antibiotics , medicine , gene , biology , virology , bacteria , genetics , staphylococcus aureus , pathology , anatomy
The group A streptococcus (GAS) M protein, encoded by the emm gene, acts as a major virulence factor. Emm-typing is the GAS gold standard molecular typing and is based on the DNA sequence of the nucleotides of the emm gene. The aim of the present study was to isolate GAS from patients and to detect the emm types of the isolates using emm typing.