Group A β-hemolytic streptococcus meningitis: Clinical and microbiological features of nine cases

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 929-931

  Sommer, Richard ^a   Rohner, Peter ^a   Garbino, Jorge ^a   Auckenthaler, Raymond ^a   Malinverni, Raffaele ^a   Lew, Daniel ^a   Kaiser, Laurent ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOTOXIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0033503684     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/520461     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Holm S. Invasive group A streptococcal infections. N Engl J Med 1996; 335:590-1.
2. Davies H, McGeer A, Schwartz B, et al. Invasive group A streptococcal infections in Ontario, Canada. N Engl J Med 1996;335:547-53.
3. Cockerill F, MacDonald K, Thompson R, et al. An outbreak of invasive group A streptococcal disease associated with high carriage rates of the invasive clone among school-aged children, JAMA 1997;277:38-43.
4. Kaul R, McGeer A, Low D, Schwartz B, Ontario Group A Streptococcal study. Population-based surveillance for group A streptococcal necrotizing fasciitis: clinical features, prognostic indicators, and microbiologic analysis of seventy-seven cases. Am J Med 1997;103:18-24.
5. Chow JW, Muder RR. Group A streptococcal meningitis. Clin Infect Dis 1992;14:418-21.
6. Tanna A, Efstratiou A, George RC. Distribution of streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin genes A, B and C amongst group A streptococci from systemic and superficial diseases [abstract no P27]. In: Program and abstracts of the 13th Lancefield International Symposium on Streptococci and Streptococcal Diseases (Paris). Paris: Institut Pasteur, 1996.
7. Working Group on Severe Streptococcal Infections. Defining the group A streptococcal toxic shock syndrome. JAMA 1993;269:390-1.
8. Bisno AL, Stevens DR, Streptococcal infections of skin and soft tissues. N Engl J Med 1996;334:240-5.
9. Asnis D, Knez T. Group A streptococcal meningitis. Arch Intern Med 1998; 158:810-4.
10. Mansfield M, Kerr K, Turney J. Group A streptococcal meningitis. Clin Infect Dis 1992;15:380-1.
11. Cabellos C, Viladrich P, Corredoira J, Verdaguer R, Ariza J, Gudiol F. Streptococcal meningitis in adult patients: current epidemiology and clinical spectrum. Clin Infect Dis 1999;28:1104-8.
12. Hauser A, Stevens D, Kaplan E, Schlievert P. Molecular analysis of pyrogenic exotoxins From Streptococcus pyogenes isolates associated with toxic shock-like syndrome. J Clin Microbiol 1991;29:1562-7.
13. Tyler SD, Johnson WM, Huang JC, et al. Streptococcal erythrogenic toxin genes: detection by polymerase chain reaction and association with disease in strains isolated in Canada from 1940 to 1991. J Clin Microbiol 1992;30:3127-31.
14. Molinari G, Chhatwal G. Invasion and survival of Streptococcus pyogenes in eukaryotic cells correlates with the source of the clinical isolates. J Infect Dis 1998;177: 1600-7.
15. Stevens DL. The toxins of group A Streptococcus, the flesh eating bacteria. Immunol Invest 1997;26:129-50.