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Karen Rudolph1, Irene Martin2, Walter Demczuk2
1Arctic Investigations Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Anchorage, Alaska.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|May 31, 2016
Abstract:
In 2011, an interlaboratory quality control (QC) program for emm typing group A streptococci (GAS) was incorporated into existing international circumpolar surveillance QC programs. From 2011 - 2015, 35 GAS isolates were distributed to three laboratories; emm type-level concordance was 100%, while the overall sub-type level concordance was 83%.
