Pleural empyema and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome due to Streptococcus pyogenes in a healthy Spanish traveler in Japan

Group A Streptococcus (GAS, Streptococcus pyogenes) causes invasive infections including streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) and local infections. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a case of an invasive GAS infection with pneumonia and pleural empyema (PE) followed by STSS (dissemi...

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Autores principales: Sakai, Tetsuya, Taniyama, Daisuke, Takahashi, Saeko, Nakamura, Morio, Takahashi, Takashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5506862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28725562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.06.006

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