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ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2023

Increases in group A streptococcal infections in the pediatric population in Houston, TX, 2022.

Aya Aboulhosn, Misu A Sanson, Luis Alberto Vega, Maria G Segura, Lauren M Summer, Marritta Joseph, J Chase McNeil, Anthony R Flores

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Article in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Aya AboulhosnDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston and Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Misu A SansonDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston and Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Luis Alberto VegaDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston and Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Maria G SeguraDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston and Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Lauren M SummerDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Marritta JosephDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
J Chase McNeilDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Anthony R FloresDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston and Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6402-4269
Memorial Hermann · USBaylor College of Medicine · US

Funding

Texas Medical Center Training Program in Antimicrobial ResistanceT32AI141349 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI GARSIN, DANIELLE A · 2019 to 2023
$1.3M
Defining novel mechanisms of clonal emergence in Group A StreptococcusR21AI159059 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI FLORES, ANTHONY RICHARD, SHELBURNE, SAMUEL A · 2021 to 2022
$453k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI159059NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI141349
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Beginning in October 2022, we observed a substantial increase in the total number of cases of invasive GAS disease (iGAS) in the pediatric population in Houston, TX. Emm12 GAS strains were disproportionately represented but the overall proportion of iGAS infections observed during the current spike was similar to pre-pandemic years.

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childrenemm typeGroup A Streptococcusinvasiveoutbreak

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PMID37011014
PMCPMC10425190
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