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Crit Care
July 2020
ICU Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Brugmann-Brugmann University Hospital, Place Van Gehuchtenplein, 4, 1020, Brussels, Belgium.
Crit Care
June 2020
Skåne University Hospital, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Lund University, SE-221 85, Lund, Sweden.
Background: Group A streptococci (GAS) are known to cause serious invasive infections, but little is known about outcomes when patients with these infections are admitted to intensive care. We wanted to describe critically ill patients with severe sepsis or septic shock due to invasive GAS (iGAS) and compare them with other patients with severe sepsis or septic shock.
Methods: Adult patients admitted to a general intensive care unit (ICU) in Sweden (2007-2019) were screened for severe sepsis or septic shock according to Sepsis 2 definition.
Rev Argent Microbiol
June 2010
Hospital Ramón Santamarina, Tandil, Argentina.
Streptococcus pyogenes causes a variety of common human diseases, including pharyngitis, scarlet fever and impetigo. Nevertheless, the past decades have witnessed a worldwide resurgence in invasive disease and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS). The objective of the present study is to evaluate the genetic diversity, virulence gene distribution (spe, sme and ssa genes) and susceptibility pattern of 10 S.
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