%0 Journal Article
%T Increase in Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease and Emergence of Mucoid Strains in a Pediatric Population: February¨CJune 2017
%A Bernard Beall
%A Lindsay Montoya
%A Lorne W Walker
%A Michael Green
%A Sopio Chochua
%J Archive of "Open Forum Infectious Diseases".
%D 2019
%R 10.1093/ofid/ofz275
%X Infection with group A Streptococcus (GAS) can cause severe systemic and locally invasive disease. Invasive group A streptococcal (iGAS) disease incidence varies both seasonally and year-to-year, and it may exhibit clustered outbreaks. We observed an upswing in iGAS cases at a tertiary care ChildrenĄŻs Hospital, prompting further characterization of local iGAS disease
%K bacteremia
%K group A Streptococcus
%K iGAS
%K invasive disease
%K mucoid
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6602792/