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[Source: Eurosurveillance, full page: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 18, Issue 33, 15 August 2013
Rapid communications
Increased incidence of invasive group A streptococcal disease in Ireland, 2012 to 2013
M Meehan <SUP>1</SUP>, S Murchan<SUP>2</SUP>, S Bergin<SUP>3</SUP>, D O?Flanagan<SUP>2</SUP>, R Cunney<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP><SUP>,3</SUP>
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1) Epidemiology and Molecular Biology Unit and, Irish Meningococcal and Meningitis Reference Laboratory, Temple Street Children?s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
2) Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin, Ireland
3) Department of Medical Microbiology, Temple Street Children?s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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Citation style for this article: Meehan M, Murchan S, Bergin S, O?Flanagan D, Cunney R. Increased incidence of invasive group A streptococcal disease in Ireland, 2012 to 2013. Euro Surveill. 2013;18(33)
ii=20556. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20556
Date of submission: 06 August 2013
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Invasive group A streptococcal (iGAS) infections have been notifiable in Ireland since 2004. Incidence rates (2004?2011) have ranged from 0.8 to 1.65 per 100,000. In 2012, the iGAS rate rose to 2.66 per 100,000 and was associated with a high proportion of emm1 isolates. A further increase in January to June 2013 has been associated with increased prevalence of emm3. Public health departments and clinicians have been alerted to this increase.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 18, Issue 33, 15 August 2013
Rapid communications
Increased incidence of invasive group A streptococcal disease in Ireland, 2012 to 2013
M Meehan <SUP>1</SUP>, S Murchan<SUP>2</SUP>, S Bergin<SUP>3</SUP>, D O?Flanagan<SUP>2</SUP>, R Cunney<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP><SUP>,3</SUP>
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1) Epidemiology and Molecular Biology Unit and, Irish Meningococcal and Meningitis Reference Laboratory, Temple Street Children?s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
2) Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin, Ireland
3) Department of Medical Microbiology, Temple Street Children?s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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Citation style for this article: Meehan M, Murchan S, Bergin S, O?Flanagan D, Cunney R. Increased incidence of invasive group A streptococcal disease in Ireland, 2012 to 2013. Euro Surveill. 2013;18(33)
ii=20556. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20556 Date of submission: 06 August 2013
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Invasive group A streptococcal (iGAS) infections have been notifiable in Ireland since 2004. Incidence rates (2004?2011) have ranged from 0.8 to 1.65 per 100,000. In 2012, the iGAS rate rose to 2.66 per 100,000 and was associated with a high proportion of emm1 isolates. A further increase in January to June 2013 has been associated with increased prevalence of emm3. Public health departments and clinicians have been alerted to this increase.
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