ArticleEpidemiology and infection2008
High burden of invasive beta-haemolytic streptococcal infections in Fiji.
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- Invasive group A streptococcal disease in pregnant women and young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2022Pooled it
- Scabies community prevalence and mass drug administration in two Fijian villages.International journal of dermatology · 2014Trial
- Burden of invasive group a streptococcus infection in Australia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026Review
- The Thousand Faces of Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections: Update on Epidemiology, Symptoms, and Therapy.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Bloodstream infection due to β-hemolytic streptococci: a population-based comparative analysis.Infection · 2019Article
- Increasing Rates of Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease in Alberta, Canada; 2003-2017.Open forum infectious diseases · 2018Article
- The Epidemiology of Scabies and Impetigo in Relation to Demographic and Residential Characteristics: Baseline Findings from the Skin Health Intervention Fiji Trial.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2017Article
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- Scabies and impetigo prevalence and risk factors in Fiji: a national survey.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2015Article
- Population-based epidemiology and microbiology of community-onset bloodstream infections.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2014Review
- Disease manifestations and pathogenic mechanisms of Group A Streptococcus.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2014Review
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- Cutting edge issues in rheumatic fever.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2012Review
- Effect of pneumococcal vaccination on nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, and Staphylococcus aureus in Fijian children.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2012Article
- Clinical and microbial characteristics of invasive Streptococcus pyogenes disease in New Caledonia, a region in Oceania with a high incidence of acute rheumatic fever.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2010Article
- emm and C-repeat region molecular typing of beta-hemolytic Streptococci in a tropical country: implications for vaccine development.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2009Article
- Burden of group A streptococcal meningitis in Salvador, Brazil: report of 11 years of population-based surveillance.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2009Article
- High burden of impetigo and scabies in a tropical country.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2009Article
- Validation of an Integrated Management of Childhood Illness algorithm for managing common skin conditions in Fiji.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2009Article
- Prospective surveillance of invasive group a streptococcal disease, Fiji, 2005-2007.Emerging infectious diseases · 2009Article
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Abstract
We undertook a 5-year retrospective study of group A streptococcal (GAS) bacteraemia in Fiji, supplemented by a 9-month detailed retrospective study of beta-haemolytic streptococcal (BHS) infections. The all-age incidence of GAS bacteraemia over 5 years was 11.6/100,000. Indigenous Fijians were 4.7 times more likely to present with invasive BHS disease than people of other ethnicities, and 6.4 times more likely than Indo-Fijians. The case-fatality rate for invasive BHS infections was 28%. emm-typing was performed on 23 isolates: 17 different emm-types were found, and the emm-type profile was different from that found in industrialized nations. These data support the contentions that elevated rates of invasive BHS and GAS infections are widespread in developing countries, and that the profile of invasive organisms in these settings reflects a wide diversity of emm-types and a paucity of types typically found in industrialized countries.
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