Two outbreaks of primarily noninvasive group A streptococcal disease in the same nursing home, New York, 1991

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 1992 Dec;13(12):748-51. doi: 10.1086/648349.

Authors

L A McNutt¹, A E Casiano-Colon, F B Coles, D L Morse, M Menegus, A Groth-Juncker, J Lansky, K Bell, B Schwartz

Affiliation

¹ Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, New York State Department of Health, Albany 12237.

PMID: 1289402
DOI: 10.1086/648349

No abstract available

Publication types

Comparative Study

MeSH terms

Aged
Disease Outbreaks* / prevention & control
Female
Humans
New York / epidemiology
Nursing Homes / statistics & numerical data*
Risk Factors
Streptococcal Infections / epidemiology*
Streptococcal Infections / prevention & control
Streptococcus pyogenes*
Time Factors