Supplementary Material - Group A streptococcus (GAS) virulence factors associated with invasive disease: a systematic review

<p dir="ltr">Supplementary materials to the following publication submitted for review:</p><p dir="ltr">Rampersadh, et al. <b>Group A streptococcus (GAS) virulence factors associated with invasive disease: A Systematic Review.</b></p><p dir="ltr">The data contains the following:</p><p dir="ltr">Fig S1. The most prevalent emm types identified amongst GAS studies.</p><p dir="ltr">Table S1. Search strategy for PubMed database.</p><p dir="ltr">Table S2. Characteristics of excluded studies.</p><p dir="ltr">Table S3. Risk of bias of the included studies.</p><p dir="ltr">Table S4. List of emm types significantly associated with invasive GAS infection.</p><p dir="ltr">Table S5. Study data of all virulence factors in all the studies (classification-cell surface, secretory, both or other).</p><p dir="ltr">Table S6. Meta-analyses of the association of secretory virulence factors and invasive infection (lab method: PCR; Low ROB).</p><p dir="ltr">Table S7. Distribution of emm cluster in invasive GAS infections.</p><p dir="ltr">Table S8. Extract of the more significant emm clusters associated with the significant virulence factors.</p><p dir="ltr">Table S9. Summary of emm clusters (>2 studies) associated with the significant virulence factors.</p>