dc.contributor.author | Tamayo, Esther | |
dc.contributor.author | Montes, Milagrosa | |
dc.contributor.author | Vicente, Diego | |
dc.contributor.author | Pérez Trallero, Emilio | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-11T15:54:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-05-11T15:54:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-03-30 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Plos One 11(3) : (2016) // Article ID e0152640 | es |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/18229 | |
dc.description.abstract | Introduction
In the preantibiotic era Streptococcus pyogenes was a common cause of severe pneumonia but currently, except for postinfluenza complications, it is not considered a common cause of community-acquired pneumonia in adults.
Aim and Material and Methods
This study aimed to identify current clinical episodes of S. pyogenes pneumonia, its relationship with influenza virus circulation and the genotypes of the involved isolates during a decade in a Southern European region (Gipuzkoa, northern Spain). Molecular analysis of isolates included emm, multilocus-sequence typing, and superantigen profile determination.
Results
Forty episodes were detected (annual incidence 1.1 x 100,000 inhabitants, range 0.29-2.29). Thirty-seven episodes were community-acquired, 21 involved an invasive infection and 10 developed STSS. The associated mortality rate was 20%, with half of the patients dying within 24 hours after admission. Influenza coinfection was confirmed in four patients and suspected in another. The 52.5% of episodes occurred outside the influenza seasonal epidemic. The 67.5% of affected persons were elderly individuals and adults with severe comorbidities, although 13 patients had no comorbidities, 2 of them had a fatal outcome. Eleven clones were identified, the most prevalent being emm1/ST28 (43.6%) causing the most severe cases.
Conclusions
S. pyogenes pneumonia had a continuous presence frequently unrelated to influenza infection, being rapidly fatal even in previously healthy individuals. | es |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported in part by the Education Department of the Basque Country Government, UPV/EHU [grant number IT656-13] and Fondo de Investigacion Sanitaria, Ministerio de Sanidad y Politica Social [grant PI08/0808]. | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | es |
dc.publisher | Public Library Science | es |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MSSSI/PI08-0808 | |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es |
dc.subject | community-acquired pneumonia | es |
dc.subject | group A steptococcus | es |
dc.subject | requiring hospitalization | es |
dc.subject | resistance | es |
dc.subject | outbreak | es |
dc.subject | ontario | es |
dc.subject | canada | es |
dc.subject | spain | es |
dc.title | Streptococcus pyogenes Pneumonia in Adults: Clinical Presentation and Molecular Characterization of Isolates 2006-2015 | es |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es |
dc.rights.holder | © 2016 Tamayo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | es |
dc.relation.publisherversion | http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0152640#abstract0 | es |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0152640 | |
dc.departamentoes | Medicina | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Medikuntza | es_ES |
dc.subject.categoria | AGRICULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES | |
dc.subject.categoria | BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | |
dc.subject.categoria | MEDICINE | |