BACKGROUND: The genomic features and transmission link of circulating Group A Streptococcus (GAS) strains causing different disease types, such as pharyngitis and invasive disease, are not well understood. METHODS: We used whole-genome sequencing to characterize GAS isolates recovered from persons with pharyngitis and invasive disease in the Denver metropolitan area from June 2016 to April 2017. RESULTS: The GAS isolates were cultured from 236 invasive and 417 pharyngitis infections. Whole-genome sequencing identified 34 emm types. Compared with pharyngitis isolates, invasive isolates were more likely to carry the erm family genes (23% vs 7.4%, P<.001), which confer resistance to erythromycin and clindamycin (including inducible resistance), and covS gene inactivation (7% vs 0.5%, P<.001). Whole-genome sequencing identified 97 genomic clusters (433 isolates; 2-65 isolates per cluster) that consisted of genomically closely related isolates (median single-nucleotide polymorphism=3 [interquartile range, 1-4] within cluster). Thirty genomic clusters (200 isolates; 31% of all isolates) contained both pharyngitis and invasive isolates and were found in 11 emm types. CONCLUSIONS: In the Denver metropolitan population, mixed disease types were commonly seen in clusters of closely related isolates, indicative of overlapping transmission networks. Antibiotic-resistance and covS inactivation was disproportionally associated with invasive disease. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2021.
BACKGROUND: The genomic features and transmission link of circulating Group A Streptococcus (GAS) strains causing different disease types, such as pharyngitis and invasive disease, are not well understood. METHODS: We used whole-genome sequencing to characterize GAS isolates recovered from persons with pharyngitis and invasive disease in the Denver metropolitan area from June 2016 to April 2017. RESULTS: The GAS isolates were cultured from 236 invasive and 417 pharyngitis infections. Whole-genome sequencing identified 34 emm types. Compared with pharyngitis isolates, invasive isolates were more likely to carry the erm family genes (23% vs 7.4%, P<.001), which confer resistance to erythromycin and clindamycin (including inducible resistance), and covS gene inactivation (7% vs 0.5%, P<.001). Whole-genome sequencing identified 97 genomic clusters (433 isolates; 2-65 isolates per cluster) that consisted of genomically closely related isolates (median single-nucleotide polymorphism=3 [interquartile range, 1-4] within cluster). Thirty genomic clusters (200 isolates; 31% of all isolates) contained both pharyngitis and invasive isolates and were found in 11 emm types. CONCLUSIONS: In the Denver metropolitan population, mixed disease types were commonly seen in clusters of closely related isolates, indicative of overlapping transmission networks. Antibiotic-resistance and covS inactivation was disproportionally associated with invasive disease. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2021.
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Group A streptococcus; antimicrobial resistance; genomic cluster; invasive disease; pharyngitis
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