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Streptococcus pyogenes Is Associated with Idiopathic Cutaneous Ulcers in Children on a Yaws-Endemic Island

Published:2021-02-23 Issue:1 Volume:12 Page:
ISSN:2150-7511
Container-title:mBio
language:en
Short-container-title:mBio

Author:

Griesenauer Brad¹,González-Beiras Camila²,Fortney Katherine R.¹,Lin Huaiying³,Gao Xiang³,Godornes Charmie⁴,Nelson David E.¹,Katz Barry P.⁵⁶,Lukehart Sheila A.⁴⁷,Mitjà Oriol²,Dong Qunfeng³,Spinola Stanley M.¹⁸⁹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

2. Carretera de Canyet, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain

3. Department of Medicine, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, USA

4. Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

5. Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

6. Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

7. Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

8. Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

9. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Abstract

Cutaneous ulcers (CU) affect approximately 100,000 children in the tropics each year. While two-thirds of CU are caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue and Haemophilus ducreyi , the cause(s) of the remaining one-third is unknown.

Funder

HHS | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Newcrest Mining

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Virology,Microbiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/mBio.03162-20

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