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Volume 25, Number 3—March 2019
Research

Increased Risk for Invasive Group A Streptococcus Disease for Household Contacts of Scarlet Fever Cases, England, 2011–2016

Vicky WattsComments to Author , Sooria Balasegaram, Colin S. Brown, Suzanna Mathew, Rachel Mearkle, Derren Ready, Vanessa Saliba, and Theresa Lamagni
Author affiliations: Public Health England, Liverpool, UK (V. Watts); Public Health England, London, UK (S. Balasegaram, C.S. Brown, D. Reddy, V. Saliba, T. Lamagni); Public Health England, Leeds, UK (S. Mathew); Public Health England, Chilton, UK (R. Mearkle)

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Figure 1

Summary of records included at each stage of the matching process of scarlet fever and iGAS cases, England 2011–2016. *Interval between excluded pairs was >60days. †A household cluster was defined on the basis of a person being given a diagnosis of scarlet fever and a different member of the same household given a diagnosis of iGAS infection for which onset of iGAS symptoms occurred within 60 days after onset of scarlet fever. iGAS, invasive group A Streptococcus infection.

Figure 1. Summary of records included at each stage of the matching process of scarlet fever and iGAS cases, England 2011–2016. *Interval between excluded pairs was >60 days. †A household cluster was defined on the basis of a person being given a diagnosis of scarlet fever and a different member of the same household given a diagnosis of iGAS infection for which onset of iGAS symptoms occurred within 60 days after onset of scarlet fever. iGAS, invasive group A Streptococcus infection.

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