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Volume 23, Number 4—April 2017
Dispatch

Incidence and Characteristics of Scarlet Fever, South Korea, 2008–2015

Duck Woong Park, Sun-Hee Kim, Jung Wook Park, Min-Ji Kim, Sun Ju Cho, Hye Jung Park, So Hyang Jung, Mi Hee Seo, Yong Seok Lee, Byung Hee Kim, Hyeran Min, Su Ya Lee, Dong Ryong Ha, Eun Sun Kim, Yeongjin Hong1Comments to Author , and Jae Keun Chung1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Health and Environment Research Institute of Gwangju, Gwangju, South Korea (D.W. Park, S.-H. Kim, J.W. Park, M.-J. Kim, S.J. Cho, H.J. Park, S.H. Jung, M.H. Seo, Y.S. Lee, D.R. Ha, E.S. Kim, J.K. Chung); Mirae Children’s Hospital (NamGu), Gwangju (B.H. Kim); Jungang Children’s Hospital, Gwangju (H. Min); Yesarang Pediatric Clinic, Gwangju (S.Y. Lee); Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju (D.W. Park, Y. Hong)

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Figure 2

emm type characterization of group A Streptococcus isolates from patients with scarlet fever, Gwangju, South Korea, 2008–2015. A) Annual fluctuations of emm types. Number of isolates by year: 7 in 2008, 11 in 2009, 9 in 2010, 66 in 2011, 74 in 2012, 147 in 2013, 107 in 2014, and 284 in 2015. B) Total number of isolates by emm type. Others refers to rarely found emm types (emm11, emm13, emm17, emm23, emm26, emm30, emm31, emm43, emm49, emm59, emm81, emm82, emm87, emm101, emm107, emm131, emm135, em

Figure 2. emm type characterization of group A Streptococcus isolates from patients with scarlet fever, Gwangju, South Korea, 2008–2015. A) Annual fluctuations of emm types. Number of isolates by year: 7 in 2008, 11 in 2009, 9 in 2010, 66 in 2011, 74 in 2012, 147 in 2013, 107 in 2014, and 284 in 2015. B) Total number of isolates by emm type. Others refers to rarely found emm types (emm11, emm13, emm17, emm23, emm26, emm30, emm31, emm43, emm49, emm59, emm81, emm82, emm87, emm101, emm107, emm131, emm135, emm161, emm163, emm174, emm183, emm196, emm203, emm204, emm227, emm236, and emm241).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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