TY - JOUR AU - Santagati, Maria AU - Spanu, Teresa AU - Scillato, Marina AU - Santangelo, Rosaria AU - Cavallaro, Fabio AU - Arena, Vincenzo AU - Castiglione, Giacomo AU - Falcone, Marco AU - Venditti, Mario AU - Stefani, Stefania T1 - Rapidly Fatal Hemorrhagic Pneumonia and Group A Streptococcus Serotype M1 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2014 VL - 20 IS - 1 SP - 98 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We report 3 cases of fulminant hemorrhagic pneumonia in previously health patients. Sudden-onset hemoptysis and dyspnea developed; all 3 patients and died <12 h later of massive pulmonary bleeding, despite aggressive supportive care. Postmortem analysis showed that the illnesses were caused by group A Streptococcus emm1/sequence type 28 strains. KW - Hemorrhagic pneumonia KW - group A Streptococcus KW - GAS KW - streptococci KW - bacteria KW - serotype M1 DO - 10.3201/eid2001.130233 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/1/13-0233_article ER - End of Reference