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Strep Infection
New strep infection study findings reported from Westmead Hospital
July 8th, 2009
"A 49-year-old health care worker received varicella vaccine in accordance with current Australian guidelines," scientists in Sydney, Australia report. "She developed streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, complicated by acute atraumatic dislocation of the right wrist secondary to poststreptococcal reactive arthritis - to our knowledge, the first report of spontaneous wrist dislocation as a complication in this condition," wrote C.M. Italiano and colleagues, Westmead Hospital. The researchers concluded: "Vaccination was accompanied by prolonged viraemia with the varicella vaccine strain - also, we believe, the first report of this in an immunocompetent...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-07-08)
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