Active Bacterial Core Surveillance (ABCs) Report Emerging Infections Program Network : Group A Streptococcus\u20142010

ABCs Areas: California (3 county San Francisco Bay area); Colorado (5 county Denver area); Connecticut; Georgia (20 county Atlanta area); Maryland (6 county Baltimore area); Minnesota; New Mexico; New York (15 county Rochester and Albany areas); Oregon (3 county Portland area); Tennessee (20 urban counties)ABCs Population: The surveillance areas represent 32,103,140 persons. Source: National Center for Health Statistics bridged-race vintage 2010 postcensal fileABCs Case Definition: Invasive group A streptococcal disease: isolation of group A Streptococcus from a normally sterile site or from a wound culture accompanied by necrotizing fasciitis or streptococcal toxic shock syndrome in a resident of a surveillance area in 2010.Oct2011 File \u2013 Jan 05, 2012Citation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2012. Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Report, Emerging Infections Program Network, Group A Streptococcus, 2010.Publication date from document properties.gas10.pdf201