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Acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis (APSGN) is a postinfectious immune-mediated kidney illness related to group A Streptococcus (GAS). The prevalence of APSGN varies inside and between international locations and is influenced by socioeconomic, host, and bacterial components. The illness is extra prevalent in creating international locations and resource-poor settings of developed international locations, such because the Indigenous populations residing in tropical Australia. The M-protein is a universally current GAS floor antigen that's the focus of molecular typing and vaccine analysis. Early experiences advised that some M-proteins (emm sorts) usually tend to trigger APSGN than others. Right here, we current the primary systematic overview of the…