Watch your Strep: Streptococcus pyogenes is a preventable cause of maternal death

Future Microbiol. 2022 Mar:17:319-323. doi: 10.2217/fmb-2021-0318. Epub 2022 Feb 4.

Authors

Patricia A Ryan^{1

2}, Danielle McGrath^{1

3}, Chad W Euler^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY 10021, USA.
² Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis & Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
³ Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA.

PMID: 35114817
DOI: 10.2217/fmb-2021-0318

No abstract available

Keywords: Group A Streptococci; Streptococcus pyogenes; disease prevention; maternal health; maternal mortality; postpartum infections; sepsis.

MeSH terms

Antigens, Bacterial
Female
Humans
Maternal Death*
Streptococcal Infections*
Streptococcus pyogenes / genetics

Substances

Antigens, Bacterial