ArticleEmerging infectious diseases
Outbreak among drug users caused by a clonal strain of group A streptococcus.
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- Bacterial and fungal infections in persons who inject drugs.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2025Review
- Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections Among People Who Inject Drugs and People Experiencing Homelessness in the United States, 2010-2017.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
- Challenges posed by COVID-19 to people who inject drugs and lessons from other outbreaks.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2020Article
- Epidemiological and molecular analysis of Streptococcus pyogenes isolates causing invasive disease in Spain (1998-2009): comparison with non-invasive isolates.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2011Article
- Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in Injection Drug Users.Current infectious disease reports · 2002Article
- Population-based surveillance of invasive group A streptococcal disease in British Columbia: 1996 to 1998.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses · 2001Article
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Abstract
We describe an outbreak among drug users of severe soft-tissue infections caused by a clonal strain of group A streptococcus of M-type 25. Cases (n = 19) in drug users were defined as infections (mainly needle abscesses) due to the outbreak strain. Comparison with controls showed that infected drug users bought drugs more often at a specific place. Drug purchase and use habits may have contributed to this outbreak.
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