ASM Oral Presentation Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2025

Emergence of invasive Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis in Australia is associated with the expansion of a globally dominant lineage (120757)

Ouli Xie 1 , Leo Featherstone 1 , Thi Nhu An Nguyen 1 , Andrew Hayes 1 , Miranda Pitt 1 , Stephanie Spring 2 , Alice Liu 3 , Gerry Tonkin-Hill 1 4 , Ravindra Dotel 5 , Neela Joshi Rai 6 , Alexander Rofe 3 , Sebastian Duchene 1 , Deborah Holt 7 , Louise Judd 1 , Lachlan Coin 1 , Vicki Krause 8 , Matthew O'Sullivan 6 , Robert Baird 9 , Katherine Bond 3 10 , Benjamin Howden 1 11 , Tony Korman 2 , Bart Currie 7 , Steven Y.C. Tong 3 , Mark R Davies 1
  1. Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  2. Monash Health, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
  3. Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, The Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of Melbourne, at the Doherty Institute , Melbourne, Vic, Australia
  4. Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, vic, Australia
  5. Blacktown Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  6. Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  7. Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia
  8. Northern Territory Centre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Department of Health, Darwin, NT, Australia
  9. Territory Pathology, Northern Territory Department of Health, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, NT, Australia
  10. Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
  11. Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Austin Health, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
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