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. 2023 May 23;329(20):1791-1792.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.5927.

Group A Streptococcal Meningitis With the M1UK Variant in the Netherlands

Boas C L van der Putten  1 , Bart J M Vlaminckx  2 , Brechje de Gier  1 , Wieke Freudenburg-de Graaf  3 , Nina M van Sorge  3
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Group A Streptococcal Meningitis With the M1UK Variant in the Netherlands

Boas C L van der Putten et al. JAMA. .
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This study reports an epidemiological assessment of laboratory-confirmed group A streptococcal meningitis cases in the Netherlands using more than 40 years of national bacteriological surveillance data.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr van Sorge reported fees for service and consultancy with relation to bacterial meningitis surveillance for S pneumoniae, H influenzae, and N meningitidis paid directly to her institution from MSD (Merck) and GSK (GlaxoSmithKline); grants from Dutch Research Council Research (Aspasia, Vici), the NIH, and Amsterdam UMC Innovation outside the submitted work; holding a patent (WO 2013/020090 A3) licensed to the University of California San Diego on vaccine development against Streptococcus pyogenes; participating on the science advisory board of the ItsME foundation (no honorarium) and Rapua te me ngaro ka tau (paid to the institution; project facilitating strep A vaccine development for Aotearoa New Zealand); and owning personal stock in Genmab BV. No other disclosures were reported.

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Figure.
Figure.. Number of Received Streptococcus pyogenes CSF Isolates With Proportion of emm1.0 Subtype, the Netherlands
Data for 2023 reported through March 13. CSF indicates cerebrospinal fluid.
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