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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Published in:	Emerging Microbes and Infections
Main Authors:	Samson SY Wong, Kwok-Yung Yuen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Taylor & Francis Group 2012-07-01
Subjects:	group A streptococcus scarlet fever Streptococcus pyogenes
Online Access:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1038/emi.2012.9