TY - JOUR AU - Turner, Claire AU - Pyzio, Marta AU - Song, Bonita AU - Lamagni, Theresa AU - Meltzer, Margie AU - Chow, J. Yimmy AU - Efstratiou, Androulla AU - Curtis, Sally AU - Sriskandan, Shiranee T1 - Scarlet Fever Upsurge in England and Molecular-Genetic Analysis in North-West London, 2014 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2016 VL - 22 IS - 6 SP - 1075 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Scarlet fever notifications surged across the United Kingdom in spring 2014. Molecular epidemiologic investigation of Streptococcus pyogenes infections in North-West London highlighted increased emm4 and emm3 infections coincident with the upsurge. Unlike outbreaks in other countries, antimicrobial resistance was uncommon, highlighting an urgent need to better understand the drivers of scarlet fever activity. KW - scarlet fever KW - Streptococcus pyogenes KW - bacteria KW - streptococci KW - antimicrobial resistance KW - superantigens KW - genotype KW - respiratory infections KW - notifications KW - London KW - England DO - 10.3201/eid2206.151726 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/6/15-1726_article ER - End of Reference