High Diversity of Group A Streptococcal emm Types in an Indian Community: The Need to Tailor Multivalent Vaccines
Clinical Infectious Diseases2004Vol. 40(1), pp. 46–51
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Nilanjan Dey, David J. McMillan, Penny Yarwood, Ravi Joshi, Rajesh Kumar, Michael F. Good, Kadaba S. Sriprakash, H. Vohra
Abstract
The high diversity of emm types encountered in a single year suggests that any M protein-based multivalent vaccine would have to be specifically tailored for this region.
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