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1799. Patients Who Inject Drugs (PWID) and Unstable Housing are Associated with Invasive Group A Strep Infection: A retrospective collaboration between two large, quaternary care hospital systems in Philadelphia

BACKGROUND: Invasive infections involving Group A Streptococcus (iGAS), defined as infections beyond simple skin and soft tissue infection or pharyngitis, are rising nationally. We report an increase in incidence of iGAS at two urban, quaternary care health systems that contain 6 hospitals in the ci...

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Autores principales: Loeven, Nicole, Altneu, Eric, Spivack, Stephanie, Halpern-Cohen, Virginie, Dyer, Kelly, Sullivan, Kaede Ota, Epstein, Shara, da Silva, Daniel Teixera, Meisner, Jessica, Schultz, Sara K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10678535/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad500.1628