Local changes in rates of group A streptococcus disease and antibiotic resistance are associated with geographically widespread strain turnover events

Virulence

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 247-253

  Metzgar, David ^a   McDonough, Erin A ^a   Hansen, Christian J ^a   Blaesing, Carl R ^b   Baynes, Darcie ^a   Hawksworth, Anthony W ^a   Blair, Patrick J ^a   Faix, Dennis J ^a   Russell, Kevin L ^a,c  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Naval Hospital Beaufort   (United States)

^c Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecology; Epidemiology; Microbial drug resistance; Molecular epidemiology; Streptococcal infections; Streptococcal M protein; Streptococcus pyogenes; Virulence

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; OFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARMY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG USE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGITIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 77954973138     PISSN: 21505594     EISSN: 21505608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/viru.1.4.11979     Document Type: Article

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