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Outbreak: #Streptococcus Pyogenes (#GAS / #GroupAStrep)
Facility: The Carriage House
Facility Type: Retirement Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Oshawa #Ontario
Date: 2025-05-02

Public Health Unit: Durham Region Health Department
Facility Tracking Hash: #DRHD0041
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObDRHD

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Outbreak: #Streptococcus Pyogenes (#GAS / #GroupAStrep)
Facility: Aspira Traditions of Durham
Facility Type: Retirement Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Third Floor, TCU
Location: #Oshawa #Ontario
Date: 2025-03-17

Public Health Unit: Durham Region Health Department
Facility Tracking Hash: #DRHD0030
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObDRHD

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N.S. couple dies from strep A just hours apart. Their family is speaking out
Two sisters from Nova Scotia are warning the public about an invasive form of strep after their mother and step-father died from the disease on the same day earlier this year.
#globalnews #Canada #Health #groupAstrep #Publichealth
https://globalnews.ca/news/10404817/ns-couple-strep-a-deaths/

‘His body hurt so bad’: Father dies from aggressive form of strep, family speaks out
A family in N.B. is urging people to get tested for Group A strep, after their father and husband was one of those who died suddenly from the bacterial infection.
#globalnews #Health #groupAstrep #strep #strepa
https://globalnews.ca/news/10257996/strep-rise-canada-deaths-new-brunswick-nova-scotia/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/strep-a-infections-bc-children-1.7088496 “B.C. health authorities are warning that group A strep was identified in four children who have died since mid-December, and the province is seeing unusually high levels of the disease this winter.”
#InvasiveGAS #GAS #GroupAStrep #infectiousdiseases

Clear trends in hospital Group A strep admissions in UK. ⬇️ during and ⬆️ after #COVID19.

This is national Hospital Episode Statistics , which matches UKHSA data.

Next question: what exactly drove the recent rise?

Hospital admissions for group A streptococcal infections in England: current rates and historical perspective
#GAS #StrepA #GroupAstrep #bacteria #microbiology #IDMastodon #medicine #MedMastodon #infectiousdiseases
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00428-0/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

About to finish #PhD in molecular microbiology/virology? Join us as #postdoc at the BSRC in St Andrews and work with Michael Nevels and me to study mechanisms underlying the devastating synergy of #GroupAStrep and #ChickenPox co-infections. Full details: https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/4582/0/391937/889/research-fellow-ar2823mr

Colour photograph of the sunny West Sands Beach at St Andrews and small false-colour electron micrograph by Manfred Rohde showing bacteria adhering to a host cell. Overlaid black text reading:
12-month position, Streptococcus pyogenes, HCMV, VZV, Molecular virology and microbiology, Bacterial adhesion and host cell invasion, Excellent research facilities, Highly collaborative environment, 5 minutes from bench to beach.

Infection with Streptococcus pyogenes after childbirth can have life threatening consequences. Here, Catton et al. show that the epidemiologically associated bacterial R28 protein targets the human CEACAM1 receptor to facilitate the pathogenesis of bacterial sepsis.
#GroupAstrep #StrepA #science #MedMastodon #IDMastodon #immunology #academicchatter

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37732-1#Sec9

Interesting to see drop in big spike in invasive Group A strep notifications in England.

Big question is if there is going to be another peak now we enter the 'usual' season, or whether this was a solitary (big) early peak.

#IDMastodon #MedMastodon #GroupAstrep #GAS #iGAS #bacteria #microbiology
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/group-a-streptococcal-infections-activity-during-the-2022-to-2023-season/group-a-streptococcal-infections-10th-update-on-seasonal-activity-in-england

👉 Group A streptococci are experts at avoiding and disarming human antibodies with no available vaccines or antibody treatments. This study presents a novel interaction mechanism between antibodies & antigens that can induce protective immune function against group A streptococci.

#StrepA #GroupAStrep #immunefunction

By W. Bahnan, P. Nordenfelt & colleagues @Lundsuni

Full #openaccess article: https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202216208

#groupAstrep

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