Streptococcus pyogenes strains associated with invasive and non-invasive infections present possible links with emm types and superantigens.

Streptococcus pyogenes, a notorious human pathogen is responsible to cause a wide range of infections varies from superficial common clinical illness to severe and life threatening infections. To our knowledge this is the first report exploring the emm types and superantigen/exotoxin gene profile of S. pyogenes from Pakistan.A total of 89 S. pyogenes strains were collected predominantly from throat swabs followed by pus, tissues and wound swabs....