Volume 28, Number 5—May 2022
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis
Invasive Group A Streptococcus Outbreaks Associated with Home Healthcare, England, 2018–2019
Laura E. Nabarro, Colin S. Brown, Sooria Balasegaram, Valérie Decraene, James Elston, Smita Kapadia, Pauline Harrington, Peter Hoffman, Rachel Mearkle, Bharat Patel, Derren Ready, Esther Robinson, and Theresa Lamagni
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Figure 2. Timeline of cases in 9 home healthcare–associated invasive group A Streptococcus (iGAS) infection outbreaks, England, January 1, 2018–August 31, 2019. Vertical black line indicates date that outbreak was declared. Diamonds indicate day of initial detection of iGAS cases: blue diamonds represent patients that survived, red diamonds patients that died. Data from outbreak 10 (39 cases, 15 deaths) were not available.
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