Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on the Epidemiology of Streptococcus pyogenes: A Five-Year Retrospective Study
Patricia Brañas, Fabiola Fontenla, María Victoria Castaño-Amores, Raúl Recio, Irene Muñoz-Gallego, Jennifer Villa, Esther Viedma, Lola Folgueira, Antonella d’Arminio Monforte · 2024
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Patricia Brañas and co-authors traced how the COVID pandemic reshaped strep cases over five years in a 2024 paper. The germ, Streptococcus pyogenes, causes sore throats, scarlet fever, and invasive disease. The team reviewed 915 cases from 2018 to 2023, split into respiratory and non-respiratory infections.
Cases of the first kind clustered in children, with a median age of five, while the other kind hit adults. Invasive lung cases were more common in children; invasive skin cases in adults. Counts crashed during the pandemic years: the first kind fell tenfold in 2020. By 2022 and 2023 rates were back to pre-pandemic levels, with a marked surge of invasive lung disease in children after a British alert. The authors stress how differently the germ acts by age and by site of infection.
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| CREATOR | Patricia Brañas, Fabiola Fontenla, María Victoria Castaño-Amores, Raúl Recio, Irene Muñoz-Gallego, Jennifer Villa, Esther Viedma, Lola Folgueira, Antonella d’Arminio Monforte |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |