Dispersal history and bidirectional human-fish host switching of invasive, hypervirulent Streptococcus agalactiae sequence type 283.

• Main Authors: Daniel Schar (Author), Zhenyu Zhang (Author), Joao Pires (Author), Bram Vrancken (Author), Marc A Suchard (Author), Philippe Lemey (Author), Margaret Ip (Author), Marius Gilbert (Author), Thomas Van Boeckel (Author), Simon Dellicour (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Human group B Streptococcus (GBS) infections attributable to an invasive, hypervirulent sequence type (ST) 283 have been associated with freshwater fish consumption in Asia. The origin, geographic dispersion pathways and host transitions of GBS ST283 remain unresolved. We gather 328 ST283 isolate wh...