Evaluating Household Transmission of Invasive Group A Streptococcus Disease in the United States Using Population-based Surveillance Data, 2013-2016

Affiliations

• ¹ Epidemic Intelligence Service and Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
• ² California Emerging Infections Program, Oakland.
• ³ Colorado Emerging Infections Program, Denver.
• ⁴ Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford.
• ⁵ Georgia Emerging Infections Program, Atlanta.
• ⁶ New Mexico Department of Health, Sante Fe.
• ⁷ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
• ⁸ Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul.
• ⁹ New York State Department of Health, Albany.
• ¹⁰ Oregon Health Authority, Portland.
• ¹¹ Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee.
• ¹² Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.