Increased incidence of invasive group a streptococcal disease in Ireland, 2012 TO 2013

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 33, 2013, Pages

  Meehan, M ^a   Murchan, S ^b   Bergin, S ^a   O'Flanagan, D ^b   Cunney, R ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b HEALTH PROTECTION SURVEILLANCE CENTRE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMM GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BACTEREMIA; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881652441     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.33.20556     Document Type: Article

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