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[Epidemiology of Streptococcus pyogenes invasive diseases in France (2007-2011)].
Archives de pediatrie : organe officiel de la Societe francaise de pediatrie - 1 Nov 2014
Plainvert C, Loubinoux J, Bidet P, Doloy A, Touak G, Dmytruk N, Collobert G, Bingen E, Bouvet A, Fouet A, Poyart C
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Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is a human pathogen responsible for a wide range of clinical manifestations. An increase of GAS invasive infections has been described since the mid 1980s. To study the French epidemiology of invasive infections (i) we characterized all GAS invasive strains received at the French National Reference Center for streptococci (CNR-Strep) between 2007 and 2011; (ii) we analyzed the...
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