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Infection Control and Infectious Disease

Group A Streptococcal infections

Clinical Information and Management

• Group A Streptococcal Infection, Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease in the Solomon Islands. (May 1, 2019)
• Clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and management of group A streptococcal pharyngitis: 2012 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. (September 9, 2012)

Epidemiology

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

Acute Rheumatic Fever

Clinical Information and Management

• 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. (January 1, 2015)
• 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. (March 24, 2019)
• Acute Rheumatic Fever: an Important Differential Diagnosis of Septic Arthritis. (January 21, 2008)