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

Tolulope Adebanjo | Zendy; Mirasol Apostol | Zendy; Nisha B. Alden | Zendy; Susan Petit | Zendy; Amy Tunali | Zendy; Salina Torres | Zendy; Rosemary Hollick | Zendy; Austin Bell | Zendy; Alison Muse | Zendy; Tasha Poissant | Zendy; William Schaffner | Zendy; Chris Van Beneden | Zendy

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

Author(s) -

Tolulope Adebanjo,

Mirasol Apostol,

Nisha B. Alden,

Susan Petit,

Amy Tunali,

Salina Torres,

Rosemary Hollick,

Austin Bell,

Alison Muse,

Tasha Poissant,

William Schaffner,

Chris Van Beneden

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciz716

Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , disease , disease surveillance , population , transmission (telecommunications) , streptococcus , demography , environmental health , physics , electrical engineering , sociology , biology , bacteria , optics , genetics , engineering

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.

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