Evolutionary pathway to increased virulence and epidemic group A Streptococcus disease derived from 3,615 genome sequences

Waleed Nasser, Stephen B. Beres, Randall J. Olsen, Melissa A. Dean, Kelsey A. Rice, S. Wesley Long, Karl G. Kristinsson, Magnus Gottfredsson, Jaana Vuopio, Kati Raisanen, Dominique A. Caugant, Martin Steinbakk, Donald E. Low, Allison McGeer, Jessica Darenberg, Birgitta Henriques-Normark, Chris A. Van Beneden, Steen Hoffmann, James M. Musser