Increasing trend of invasive group B streptococcal infections, Marseille, France.
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TO THE EDITOR—We read with interest the article by Lamagni et al that describes a steady rise from 700–800 to 1652 per annum during the 1991–2010 period of invasive group B streptococcus (GBS) infections in England and Wales, most pronounced among adults [1]. This was identified based on routine microbiology laboratory reports undertaken across these countries through an automated biosurveillance system [1, 2], and was triggered by the description of an increase of invasive GBS disease in nonpregnant adults in the United States [3]. Since 2002, a weekly surveillance system of infections based on clinical microbiology data was implemented in our center, which is similar to that described in England and Wales and aims at detecting abnormal events [4]. In spring 2013, we extended our surveillance panel to all bacterial species found from 2002 through 2012 in our laboratory, including 459 different species identified from approximately 500 000 bacterial isolates [5]. Unexpectedly, we detected that GBS was, from weeks 16–25 of 2013, the ninth most frequently identified bacteria. These data and Lamagni et al’s findings prompted us to analyze the incidence since mid-2008 (no earlier comprehensive data being available) of invasive GBS infections in our institution that gathers university hospitals of Marseille, the second-largest French city. A total of 334 invasive GBS infections were diagnosed over the July 2008–
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
دوره 58 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014