Predictors of Death after Severe Streptococcus pyogenes Infection

Abstract

An evaluation of the relative importance of host and pathogen factors on the survival rate of patients with invasive Streptococcus pyogenes infection found a number of clinical and demographic factors to be associated with risk for death. Some evidence suggested a seasonal pattern to patient survival rate.

Keywords

• Streptococcus pyogenes
• fatal outcome
• seasons
• epidemiologic factors
• Great Britain
• dispatch