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Streptococcal infection in general practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

M. Barnham
M. Barnham
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Department of Microbiology, Harrogate General Hospital, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG2 7ND.
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The last 30 years have been changes in emphasis in the study of streptococci and streptococcal diseases. Earlier work concentrated mainly on the sources and methods of cross-infection and descriptive epidemiology of Streptococcus pyogenes in its major manifestations of respiratory, cutaneous and invasive infection and in the complications of rheumatic fever (RF), scarlet fever (SF) and post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis (PSGN).

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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 109 , Issue 2 , October 1992 , pp. 177 - 180
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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