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Ongoing outbreak of invasive and non-invasive disease due to group A Streptococcus (GAS) type emm66 among homeless and people who inject drugs in England and Wales, January to December 2016

We report an outbreak of invasive and non-invasive disease due to an unusual type of Streptococcus pyogenes(group A Streptococcus, emm66) among a vulnerable, largely homeless population in southern England and Wales, detected in September 2016. Twenty-seven confirmed cases were subsequently identifi...

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Autores principales: Bundle, Nick, Bubba, Laura, Coelho, Juliana, Kwiatkowska, Rachel, Cloke, Rachel, King, Sarah, Rajan-Iyer, Jill, Courtney-Pillinger, Max, Beck, Charles R, Hope, Vivian, Lamagni, Theresa, Brown, Colin S, Jermacane, Daiga, Glass, Rachel, Desai, Monica, Gobin, Maya, Balasegaram, Sooria, Anderson, Charlotte
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5322289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28128090
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.3.30446