Hypervirulent group A Streptococcus emergence in an acaspular background is associated with marked remodeling of the bacterial cell surface

• Jessica Galloway-Peña ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica Galloway-Peña, Sruti DebRoy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1081-254X

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• Sruti DebRoy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica Galloway-Peña, Sruti DebRoy

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Chelcy Brumlow,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5766-7637

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• Xiqi Li,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Truc T. Tran,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Genomics and Division of Infectious Diseases, UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Nicola Horstmann,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3620-5169

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• Hui Yao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Ken Chen,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4013-5279

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• Fang Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Bih-Fang Pan,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation The Proteomics and Metabolomics Facility, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6382-6200

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• David H. Hawke,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation The Proteomics and Metabolomics Facility, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6102-7843

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• Erika J. Thompson,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Cesar A. Arias,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Genomics and Division of Infectious Diseases, UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Infectious Diseases, UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Molecular Genetics and Antimicrobial Resistance Unit-International Center for Microbial Genomics, Universidad El Bosque, Bogota, Colombia

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• Vance G. Fowler Jr.,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Micah M. Bhatti,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Awdhesh Kalia,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Graduate Program in Diagnostic Genetics, School of Health Professions, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Anthony R. Flores,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Genomics and Division of Infectious Diseases, UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6402-4269

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• Samuel A. Shelburne

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sshelburne@mdanderson.org

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, The Proteomics and Metabolomics Facility, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9721-263X

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