Ho Kwong Li

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The writer years for those simpler times when all of us could laugh at the same jokes together. Read more at straitstimes.com.

May 10, 2024 | nature.com | Yu Wan |Ho Kwong Li |Xavier Didelot |Nicholas J Croucher |Elita Jauneikaite |Colin Brown | +1 more

AbstractThe UK observed a marked increase in scarlet fever and invasive group A streptococcal infection in 2022 with severe outcomes in children and similar trends worldwide. Here we report lineage M1UK to be the dominant source of invasive infections in this upsurge. Compared with ancestral M1global strains, invasive M1UK strains exhibit reduced genomic diversity and fewer mutations in two-component regulator genes covRS. The emergence of M1UK is dated to 2008.