Re-emergence of scarlet fever: old players return?

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2016 Aug;14(8):687-9. doi: 10.1080/14787210.2016.1195684. Epub 2016 Jun 13.

Authors

Diego O Andrey¹, Klara M Posfay-Barbe²

Affiliations

¹ a Service of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medical Specialties , Geneva University Hospitals & University of Geneva Medical School , Geneva , Switzerland.
² b Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Pediatrics , Geneva University Hospitals & University of Geneva Medical School , Geneva , Switzerland.

PMID: 27249582
DOI: 10.1080/14787210.2016.1195684

No abstract available

Keywords: Scarlet fever; Streptococcus pyogenes; horizontal gene transfer; integrative and conjugative elements; outbreak; speA; speC; ssa.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

China / epidemiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology*
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / microbiology
Disease Outbreaks
Gene Transfer, Horizontal
Genome, Bacterial / genetics
Hong Kong / epidemiology
Humans
Interspersed Repetitive Sequences
Scarlet Fever / epidemiology*
Scarlet Fever / microbiology
Streptococcus pyogenes / genetics
United Kingdom / epidemiology
Vietnam / epidemiology