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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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Table 1

Characteristics of 11 iGAS case-patients within household clusters, England, 2011–2016*

Characteristic
          No. case-patients
Total
Male sex
Female sex
Age, y
<1 2 1 1
1–18 2 0 2
19–50 6 3 3
>75 1 1 0
Total
11
5
6
Relationship to scarlet fever case-patient
Parent 5 3 2
Sibling 4 1 3
Unknown
2
1
1
Acute health conditions at time of diagnosis
Influenza A
1
NR
NR
Chronic health condition at time of diagnosis
Arthritis 1 NR NR
Crohn’s disease 1 NR NR
Premature birth 1 NR NR
Diabetes 1 NR NR
Atypical mycobacterial infection 1 NR NR
Asplenia 1 NR NR
Multiple unnamed conditions 1 NR NR
No concurrent conditions
6
NR
NR
Died
3
NR
NR
Clinical manifestation
Sepsis 5 NR NR
Cellulitis 3 NR NR
Septic arthritis 1 NR NR
Other invasive infection (unspecified)
2
NR
NR
iGAS emm typing
1.0 4 NR NR
4.0 1 NR NR
12.0 1 NR NR
Untyped 6 NR NR

*iGAS, invasive group A Streptococcus infection; NR, not reported.

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