Spread of virulent group a streptococcus type emm59 from Montana to Wyoming, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 679-681

  Brown, Christopher C ^a,f   Olsen, Randall J ^b,c   Fittipaldi, Nahuel ^d,e   Morman, Monica L ^a   Fort, Peter L ^a   Neuwirth, Robert ^a   Majeed, Mohammed ^a   Woodward, William B ^a   Musser, James M ^b,c  

^a Campbell County Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f Department of Internal Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLISTER; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; ECCHYMOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FASCIITIS; FEMALE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; PAPULE; PHYLOGENY; SKIN NECROSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIRULENCE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONTANA; PHYLOGENY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIRULENCE; WYOMING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896462791     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2004.130564     Document Type: Article

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