Epidemiology, Evolution and Prevention of Streptococcal Pandemics

Penicillin-resistant Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis and the association with penicillin-binding protein mutations: a population genotypic and phenotypic study

O Xie, A Tan, TB Nguyen, AJ Hayes, R Dotel, G Carter, MVN O'Sullivan, K Bond, CA McDevitt, TM Korman, BJ Currie, DB Ascher, SYC Tong, SJ van Hal, MR Davies

2026-09-02

Streptococcus dysgalactiae subspecies equisimilis (SDSE) is increasingly recognized as a cause of human disease. Despite decades o..

Strain-level transmission inference across multi-kingdom metagenomic data using TRACS

G Tonkin-Hill, Y Shao, AE Zarebski, S Mallawaarachchi, O Xie, T Mäklin, HA Thorpe, MR Davies, SD Bentley, TD Lawley, J Corander

2026-06-01

Coexisting strains of the same species within metagenomic data pose a substantial challenge to inferring transmission of pathogeni..

Emergence of distinct Streptococcus pyogenes emm1 and emm12 lineages in China

Y You, D Yu, C Yang, X Peng, O Xie, H Chang, C Hua, F Zhao, X Yan, M Zhang, X Ruan, JEJ Wells, S Brouwer, C Duitama González, M Fang, X Yu, L Sun, X Wei, J Liu, D Zhang

2026-05-01

Cases of scarlet fever have increased since 2011 across China. However, genomic epidemiological knowledge of Streptococcus pyogene..