Puerperal Group A Streptococcal Infections: A Case Series and Discussion

Puerperal group A streptococcal infections, a major postpartum killer during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, have become (fortunately) rare. We describe a cluster of 4 serious peripartum group A streptococcal infections occurring within the past five years at a single medical center. These c...

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Autores principales: Busowski, Mary T., Lee, Melissa, Busowski, John D., Akhter, Kauser, Wallace, Mark R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3638550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23710192
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/751329
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description Puerperal group A streptococcal infections, a major postpartum killer during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, have become (fortunately) rare. We describe a cluster of 4 serious peripartum group A streptococcal infections occurring within the past five years at a single medical center. These cases were not epidemiologically linked and serve to illustrate the continuing risk of these potentially fulminant infections.
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spelling pubmed-36385502013-05-24 Puerperal Group A Streptococcal Infections: A Case Series and Discussion Busowski, Mary T. Lee, Melissa Busowski, John D. Akhter, Kauser Wallace, Mark R. Case Rep Med Case Report Puerperal group A streptococcal infections, a major postpartum killer during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, have become (fortunately) rare. We describe a cluster of 4 serious peripartum group A streptococcal infections occurring within the past five years at a single medical center. These cases were not epidemiologically linked and serve to illustrate the continuing risk of these potentially fulminant infections. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3638550/ /pubmed/23710192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/751329 Text en Copyright © 2013 Mary T. Busowski et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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