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. 2020 Mar 17;70(7):1478-1481.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz716.

Evaluating Household Transmission of Invasive Group A Streptococcus Disease in the United States Using Population-based Surveillance Data, 2013-2016

Tolulope Adebanjo  1 , Mirasol Apostol  2 , Nisha Alden  3 , Susan Petit  4 , Amy Tunali  5 , Salina Torres  6 , Rosemary Hollick  7 , Austin Bell  8 , Alison Muse  9 , Tasha Poissant  10 , William Schaffner  11 , Chris A Van Beneden  12
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Evaluating Household Transmission of Invasive Group A Streptococcus Disease in the United States Using Population-based Surveillance Data, 2013-2016

Tolulope Adebanjo et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

Using population-based surveillance data, we quantified the secondary invasive group A Streptococcus disease risk among household contacts. The disease risk in the 30 days postexposure to an index-case patient was highest among individuals aged ≥65 years, versus the annual background incidence of all ages.

Keywords: Streptococcus pyogenes; disease transmission; epidemiology; group A Streptococcus; surveillance.

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