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Infection Control and Infectious Disease

Group A streptococcus

Clinical Information and Management

• Group A Streptococcal Infection, Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease in the Solomon Islands (May 1, 2019)
• Revision of the Jones Criteria for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever in the era of Doppler echocardiography: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. (2015 Jan 1).
• Clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and management of group A streptococcal pharyngitis: 2012 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. (2012 Sep 9)
• Prevention of rheumatic fever and diagnosis and treatment of acute Streptococcal pharyngitis: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease Committee of the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, the Interdisciplinary Council on Functional Genomics and Translational Biology, and the Interdisciplinary Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research: endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Circulation. (2009 Mar 24).
• Acute Rheumatic Fever: an Important Differential Diagnosis of Septic Arthritis. (21 Jan. 2008)

Epidemiology

• Resurgence of scarlet fever in China: a 13-year population-based surveillance study. (2018 May 29).
• Resurgence of scarlet fever in England, 2014–16: a population-based surveillance study. (2018 Feb 1).
• Epidemiology of reemerging scarlet fever, Hong Kong, 2005–2015. Emerging Infectious Diseases. (2017 Oct).
• Incidence and characteristics of scarlet fever, South Korea, 2008–2015. Emerging Infectious Diseases. (2017 Apr).
• Epidemiology of invasive group A streptococcal infections in the United States, 2005–2012. (2016 Apr 22)
• The global burden of group A streptococcal diseases. (2005 Nov 1)

Review

• Acute Rheumatic Fever. (7 July 2005)
• Group A Streptococcal Infections and Acute Rheumatic Fever: (September 12, 1991)

Group B streptococcus

• Risk Factors and Mortality Rates Associated With Invasive Group B Streptococcus Infections Among Patients in the US Veterans Health Administration (December 27, 2019)
• Estimates of the Burden of Group B Streptococcal Disease Worldwide for Pregnant Women, Stillbirths, and Children (06 November 2017)

Group C / G streptococcus

• Beta-Hemolytic Nongroup A Streptococcal Pharyngitis in Children (March 2019)
• Antibiotic Use for Streptococcal Pharyngitis Groups C and G (2005 Jun)