Emma Sherwood, Stefania Vergnano, Isona Kakuchi, Michael G Bruce, Suman Chaurasia, Samara David, Angela Dramowski, Scarlett Georges, Rebecca Guy, Theresa Lamagni, Daniel Levy-Bruhl, Outi Lyytikäinen, Monika Naus, Jennifer Onukwube Okaro, Oddvar Oppegaard, Didrik F Vestrheim, Tammy Zulz, Andrew C Steer, Chris A Van Beneden, Anna C Seale
BACKGROUND: The incidence of invasive disease caused by group A streptococcus (GAS) has increased in multiple countries in the past 15 years. However, despite these reports, to the best of our knowledge, no systematic reviews and combined estimates of the incidence of invasive GAS have been done in key high-risk groups. To address this, we estimated the incidence of invasive GAS disease, including death and disability outcomes, among two high-risk groups-namely, pregnant women and children younger than 5 years...
July 2022: Lancet Infectious Diseases