2023-10-14 10:11:52
A college student died of septicemia this week at Bordeaux University Hospital, following a streptococcal A infection, according to Sud Ouest. “No cases in his family or in the school environment” have been reported to the ARS.
According to information from Sud Ouest, an 11-year-old boy died this week at Bordeaux University Hospital of septicemia caused by a streptococcal A infection.
Group A Streptococcus is a bacteria that is transmitted exclusively from man to man, according to the Institut Pasteur website. This private foundation specializing in research against infectious diseases explains that Streptococcus A “is responsible for frequent benign and non-invasive infections, such as angina and impetigo”.
It can also cause “serious invasive infections: bacteremia, necrotizing skin infections, puerperal infections, pleuropneumopathies, meningitis”. The mortality rate from invasive streptococcal A infections is estimated at around 10% for all pathologies combined, according to the Pasteur Institute.
No other cases in his entourage
According to Sud Ouest, the schoolboy fell ill following a school trip to the Landes coast, but doctors have not yet determined what caused the infection. The public health doctor of the ARS of Landes Damien Sainte-Croix told the local media that “no case in his family or in the school environment” has been reported.
“Moreover, Streptococcus A has a rather limited contagious nature. This is why in terms of epidemic, we are not very worried despite this terrible tragedy,” he added.
The winter of 2022 gave rise to a greater circulation of A streptococci than usual, according to Public Health France. This public establishment dependent on the Ministry of Health noted on March 26 in a situation update that this increase could result, “at least in part, from a rebound post-barrier measures, particularly in children whose immune system has not not been in contact with the strains of GAS that usually circulate.
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