Extensive Diversity of Streptococcus pyogenes in a Remote Human Population Reflects Global-Scale Transmission Rather than Localised Diversification

• Rebecca J. Towers,

  Current address: Peter Macauley Centre, Winnellie, Northern Territory, Australia

  Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research, Division of Global and Tropical Health, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia

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• Jonathan R. Carapetis,

  Affiliations Menzies School of Health Research, Division of Global and Tropical Health, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, West Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Bart J. Currie,

  Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research, Division of Global and Tropical Health, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia

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• Mark R. Davies,

  Affiliation Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

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• Mark J. Walker,

  Affiliation Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

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• Gordon Dougan,

  Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Philip M. Giffard

  * E-mail: phil.giffard@menzies.edu.au

  Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research, Division of Global and Tropical Health, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia

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