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Volume 13, Number 12—December 2007
Research

Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infection in Older Adults in Long-term Care Facilities and the Community, United States, 1998–20031

Michael C. Thigpen*Comments to Author , Chesley L. Richards*, Ruth Lynfield†, Nancy L. Barrett‡, Lee H. Harrison§, Kathryn E. Arnold¶, Arthur L. Reingold#, Nancy M. Bennett**, Allen S. Craig††, Ken Gershman‡‡, Paul R. Cieslak§§, Paige Lewis*, Carolyn M. Greene*, Bernard Beall*, Chris A. Van Beneden*, and for the Active Bacterial Core surveillance/Emerging Infections Program Network
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Minnesota Department of Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; ‡Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; §Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ¶Georgia Department of Human Resources, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; #University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, California, USA; **University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA; ††Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; ‡‡Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, Colorado, USA; §§Oregon State Public Health, Portland, Oregon, USA; 1Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, September 30–October 3, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.;

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Table 4

Most common emm types identified in persons >65 y with invasive group A streptococcal infection, by residence, ABCs areas, 1998–2003*

emm type No. LTCF case-patients (%), N = 324 No. community-based case-patients (%), N = 1,090
1 55 (17.0) 233 (21.4)
3 44 (13.6) 141 (12.9)
28 39 (12.0) 122 (11.2)
12 21 (6.5) 116 (10.6)
89 27 (8.3) 61 (5.6)
77 9 (2.8) 39 (3.6)
6 12 (3.7) 22 (2.0)
18 6 (1.9) 28 (2.6)
11 10 (3.1) 23 (2.1)
4 11 (3.4) 21 (1.9)

*ABCs, Active Bacterial Core surveillance; LTCF, long-term care facility. Case-patients with missing responses for residence type and emm type were excluded from analysis. Table stratified by overall frequency.

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1Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, September 30–October 3, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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