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Emerging Infect. Dis. · Jun 2016
Historical ArticleScarlet Fever Upsurge in England and Molecular-Genetic Analysis in North-West London, 2014.
- Claire E Turner, Marta Pyzio, Bonita Song, Theresa Lamagni, Margie Meltzer, J Yimmy Chow, Androulla Efstratiou, Sally Curtis, and Shiranee Sriskandan.
- Emerging Infect. Dis. 2016 Jun 1; 22 (6): 1075-8.
AbstractScarlet fever notifications surged across the United Kingdom in spring 2014. Molecular epidemiologic investigation of Streptococcus pyogenes infections in North-West London highlighted increased emm4 and emm3 infections coincident with the upsurge. Unlike outbreaks in other countries, antimicrobial resistance was uncommon, highlighting an urgent need to better understand the drivers of scarlet fever activity.
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