Increase in invasive group a streptococcal ( streptococcus pyogenes ) infections (igas) in young children in the netherlands,

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• who: from the The Dutch National Reference Laboratory for Bacterial Meningitis (NRLBM) at the Amsterdam University Medical Center, offers emm typing for Spyogenes isolates submitted by microbiological laboratories. Since, bacteriological surveillance of iGAS infections was initiated as part of a pilot study. Nine laboratories (covering ca, % of the Dutch population) have voluntarily submitted all S. pyogenes isolates cultured from normally sterile compartments for emm typing to the NRLBM. Since May, the NRLBM and the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) have requested all microbiological laboratories to submit S. pyogenes isolates cultured from normally . . .
  

   

  

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