Year: 2010
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Group G Streptococcus strains isolated from patients with severe invasive infections in the period 2002-2008 were surveyed and their prevalence compared with that observed in the period 1995-2001 in Japan. Strains with genotypes stg485, stg6792, stc36, stg6, and stg652 were isolated in both periods, whereas various new genotypes appeared in 2002-2008 and some genotypes found in 1995-2001 were not found subsequently, thus indicating a change in the prevalent genotyped strains causing severe invasive streptococcal infections.
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.63.372
Authors: Tadayoshi Ikebe, Yuuko Oguro, Kikuyo Ogata, Chihiro Katsukawa, Junko Isobe, Tomoko Shima, Rieko Suzuki, Hitomi Ohya, Kiyoshi Tominaga, Rumi Okuno, Yumi Uchitani, Yuki Tada, Nobuhiko Okabe, Haruo Watanabe, The Working Group for β-hemolytic Streptococci in Japan
Institutions: National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fukushima Institute of Public Health, Oita Prefectural Institute of Health and Environment, Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Toyama Institute of Health, Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Yamaguchi Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environment, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W141600532