@article{5e1815ace5d84bda8434dd54d0024842,
title = "Prevention of invasive group A streptococcal disease among household contacts of case patients and among postpartum and postsurgical patients: Recommendations from the centers for disease control and prevention",
abstract = "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hosted a workshop to formulate recommendations for the control of invasive group A streptococcal (GAS) disease among household contacts of persons with invasive GAS infections and for responding to postpartum and postsurgical invasive GAS infections. Experts reviewed data on the risk of subsequent invasive GAS infection among household contacts of case patients, the effectiveness of chemoprophylactic regimens for eradicating GAS carriage, and the epidemiology of postpartum and postsurgical GAS infection clusters. For household contacts of index patients, routine screening for and chemoprophylaxis against GAS are not recommended. Providers and public health officials may choose to offer chemoprophylaxis to household contacts who are at an increased risk of sporadic disease or mortality due to GAS. One nosocomial postpartum or postsurgical invasive GAS infection should prompt enhanced surveillance and isolate storage, whereas ≥2 cases caused by the same strain should prompt an epidemiological investigation that includes the culture of specimens from epidemiologically linked health care workers.",
author = "{The Prevention of Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections Workshop Participants} and Bernard Beall and John Besser and Alan Bisno and Ilin Chuang and Craig, {Allen S.} and Richard Facklam and Janice Fetter and Gerber, {Michael A.} and Gregory Gray and Harry Hill and Lisa Lepine and Orin Levine and Allison McGeer and Matthew Moore and Michele Pearson and Katherine O{\textquoteright}brien and Anne Schuchat and Mack Sewell and Stanford Shulman and Jane Siegel and Stevens, {Dennis L.} and Larry Strausbaugh and {Van Beneden}, Chris",
note = "Funding Information: The participants in the workshop were as follows, in alphabetical order: Bernard Beall (Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], Atlanta, Georgia), John Besser (Minnesota Department of Health, Minneapolis), Alan Bisno (Miami Veteran{\textquoteright}s Affairs [VA] Medical Center and University of Miami School of Medicine, FL), Ilin Chuang (Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, CDC), Allen S. Craig (Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville; representative, Active Bacterial Core Surveillance program), Richard Facklam (Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, CDC); Janice Fetter (North-side Hospital, Atlanta, GA; representative, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology), Michael A. Gerber (Children{\textquoteright}s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH; representative, American Academy of Pediatrics), Gregory Gray (University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City; representative, US Navy [retired]), Harry Hill (University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City), Lisa Lepine (Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA), Orin Levine (National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD), Allison McGeer (Mt. Sinai Hospital, and Laboratory Medicine and Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, ON, Canada), Matthew Moore (Epidemic Intelligence Service Program, Division of Applied Public Health Training, Epidemiology Program Office, and Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, CDC), Michele Pearson (Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, CDC), Katherine O{\textquoteright}Brien (Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD), Anne Schuchat (Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, CDC), Mack Sewell (New Mexico Department of Health, Santa Fe; representative, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists), Stanford Shulman (Children{\textquoteright}s Memorial Hospital, and Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois), Jane Siegel (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dal- las, TX; representative, Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee), Dennis L. Stevens (Boise VA Medical Center, ID; and University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle), Larry Strausbaugh (Portland VA Medical Center and Oregon Health and Sciences University School of Medicine, Portland; representative, Infectious Diseases Society of America), and Chris Van Beneden (Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, CDC).",
year = "2002",
month = oct,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1086/342692",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "35",
pages = "950--959",
journal = "Clinical Infectious Diseases",
issn = "1058-4838",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "8",
}