Clinical StudiesCharacterization of Streptococcus pyogenes isolates responsible for adult meningitis in France from 2003 to 2013
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Funding
This study was partly funded by the Institut de Veille Sanitaire, the Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, and INSERM and by a grant from ANR of ERA-Net PathoGenoMics (grant no. ANR-08-MIEN-015).
Transparency declaration
C. Poyart has received reimbursement for attending meetings from bioMérieux, Bio-Rad, Cepheid, and Novartis and has received research funding from Institut Mérieux, Wyeth, and Siemens.
Acknowledgments
We thank the correspondents of the CNR-Strep for sending the isolates and completing the questionnaires. We are grateful to Dr A. Lepoutre (Institut de Veille Sanitaire) for kindly providing the mean number of adult GAS meningitis per year in France (2003–2013). We are indebted to Dr Valérie Pérut for statistical analysis of the data.
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