Streptococcus pyogenes and re-emergence of scarlet fever as a public health problem

Explosive outbreaks of infectious diseases occasionally occur without immediately obvious epidemiological or microbiological explanations. Plague, cholera and Streptococcus pyogenes infection are some of the epidemic-prone bacterial infections. Besides epidemiological and conventional microbiologica...

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Main Authors: Samson SY Wong, Kwok-Yung Yuen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2012-07-01
Series:Emerging Microbes and Infections
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1038/emi.2012.9