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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 14.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Microbiol Infect. 2013 Mar 7;19(5):E222–E229. doi: 10.1111/1469-0691.12134

Figure 1. Study profile.

Figure 1

* List of countries with respective number of isolates in brackets: Argentina (5), Australia (137), Belgium (46), Brazil (105), Canada (69), Chile (5), Czech Republic (17), Germany (50), Egypt (39), Ethiopia (4), Fiji (55), India (51), Israel (67), Japan (12), Kenya (1), Malaysia (1), Mali (58), Mexico (7), New Zealand (1), Norway (19), Papua New Guinea (2), Portugal (21), Romania (22), Russia (15), South Africa (22), Sweden (45), Taiwan (37), The Gambia (1), United Kingdom (22), USA (138, including 83 in mainland and 55 in Hawaii), Venezuela (1). Geographical origin is unknown for 3 isolates. SDSE, Streptococcus dysgalactiae subspecies equisimilus. The eight emm-types recovered prior to 1987 are as follows: emm-types 17, 34, 37, 38, 46, 47, 51 and 72.