Postpartum Group A Streptococcus Case Series: Reach Out to Infection Prevention!

A series of postpartum Streptococcus pyogenes infections prompted an investigation to rule out potential transmission by a health care worker. None of the hospital staff screened were colonized. All isolates were determined to be unrelated by molecular methods, including whole-genome sequencing. Thu...

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Autores principales: Alexander, Andrew J, Myers, Carol, Beres, Stephen B, Olsen, Randall J, Musser, James M, Mangino, Julie E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6051448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30038929
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy159
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author Alexander, Andrew J
Myers, Carol
Beres, Stephen B
Olsen, Randall J
Musser, James M
Mangino, Julie E
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description A series of postpartum Streptococcus pyogenes infections prompted an investigation to rule out potential transmission by a health care worker. None of the hospital staff screened were colonized. All isolates were determined to be unrelated by molecular methods, including whole-genome sequencing. Thus, nosocomial transmission was considered unlikely.
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spelling pubmed-60514482018-07-23 Postpartum Group A Streptococcus Case Series: Reach Out to Infection Prevention! Alexander, Andrew J Myers, Carol Beres, Stephen B Olsen, Randall J Musser, James M Mangino, Julie E Open Forum Infect Dis ID Case A series of postpartum Streptococcus pyogenes infections prompted an investigation to rule out potential transmission by a health care worker. None of the hospital staff screened were colonized. All isolates were determined to be unrelated by molecular methods, including whole-genome sequencing. Thus, nosocomial transmission was considered unlikely. Oxford University Press 2018-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6051448/ /pubmed/30038929 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy159 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Postpartum Group A Streptococcus Case Series: Reach Out to Infection Prevention!
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