Recrudescence of Scarlet Fever and Its Implications for Dental Professionals [PDF]
International Dental Journal, 2023 A significant increase in the incidence of scarlet fever, mainly in Europe, has been noted during the COVID-19 postpandemic period. Scarlet fever is caused by a pyrogenic exotoxin-producing streptococcus—Streptococcus pyogenes—responsible for more than ...
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Epidemiological trend in scarlet fever incidence in China during the COVID-19 pandemic: A time series analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 ObjectiveOver the past decade, scarlet fever has caused a relatively high economic burden in various regions of China. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are necessary because of the absence of vaccines and specific drugs.
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The association between ambient air pollution and scarlet fever in Qingdao, China, 2014–2018: a quantitative analysis [PDF]
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021 Background We conducted a distributed lag non-linear time series analysis to quantify the association between air pollution and scarlet fever in Qingdao city during 2014–2018.
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Spatiotemporal dynamics and potential ecological drivers of acute respiratory infectious diseases: an example of scarlet fever in Sichuan Province [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Object Scarlet fever is an acute respiratory infectious disease that endangers public health and imposes a huge economic burden. In this paper, we systematically studied its spatial and temporal evolution and explore its potential ecological drivers. The
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The dynamics of scarlet fever in The Netherlands, 1906–1920: a historical analysis [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Background. Scarlet fever, an infectious disease caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, largely disappeared in developed countries during the twentieth century.
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Epidemiological Characteristics and Trends of Scarlet Fever in Zhejiang Province of China: Population-Based Surveillance during 2004–2022 [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical MicrobiologyBackground. Over the past two decades, scarlet fever has resurged in some countries or areas. Nationwide nonpharmaceutical interventions changed the patterns of other infectious diseases, but its effects on the spread of scarlet fever were rarely studied.
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Streptococcal superantigens and the return of scarlet fever. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2021 Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus) is a globally disseminated and human-adapted bacterial pathogen that causes a wide range of infections, including scarlet fever. Scarlet fever is a toxin-mediated disease characterized by the formation of an
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Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2023 BackgroundInternet-derived data and the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and ARIMA with explanatory variable (ARIMAX) models are extensively used for infectious disease surveillance.
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Toxic Streptococcal Infection in Children: Report on Two Cases with Uncharacteristic Course of Scarlet Fever [PDF]
Children, 2023 Introduction: Scarlet fever is usually a mild childhood disease caused by type A streptococci. This disease is spread by droplets, mainly through direct contact with an infected person or the objects they have used.
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Epidemiological study of scarlet fever in Shenyang, China [PDF]
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019 Background Since 2011, there has been an increase in the incidence of scarlet fever across China. The main objective of this study was to depict the spatiotemporal epidemiological characteristics of the incidence of scarlet fever in Shenyang, China, in ...
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