A cluster of ecthyma outbreaks caused by a single clone of invasive and highly infective Streptococcus pyogenes

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1213-1219

  Wasserzug, Oshri ^a   Valinsky, Lea ^b   Klement, Eyal ^a   Bar Zeev, Yael ^a   Davidovitch, Nadav ^a   Orr, Nadav ^a   Korenman, Zina ^b   Kayouf, Raid ^a   Sela, Tamar ^a   Ambar, Ruhama ^a   Derazne, Estela ^a   Dagan, Ron ^c   Zarka, Salman ^a  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; CLOXACILLIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECTHYMA; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOSE; OROPHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOLDIER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; WOUND; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BURSITIS; CLASSIFICATION; GENOTYPE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISRAEL; MICROBIOLOGY; NOSE MUCOSA; SEPSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADULT; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BURSITIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECTHYMA; GENOTYPE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NASAL MUCOSA; OROPHARYNX; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; SEPSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549151740     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597770     Document Type: Article

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