Active Bacterial Core Surveillance (ABCs) Report Emerging Infections Program Network: Group B Streptococcus, 2024

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.)
• Description:
  ABCs Areas: California (3 county San Francisco Bay area); Colorado (5 county Denver area); Connecticut; Georgia (20 county + State <1 year); Maryland; Minnesota; New Mexico; New York (15 county Rochester and Albany areas); Oregon (3 county Portland area); Tennessee (20 counties).
  
  ABCs Population: The surveillance areas represent 39,096,896 persons and 465,845 live births. Source: Census Bureau's Vintage 2024 population estimates and natality data from National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
  
  ABCs Case Definition: Invasive bacterial disease is defined as isolation of group B Streptococcus from a normally sterile site or detection of ABCs pathogen-specific nucleic acid in a specimen obtained from a normally sterile body site, using a validated molecular test in a resident of one of the surveillance areas. Early‑onset cases occur at <7 days old and late‑onset between 7 and 89 days old.
  
  Citation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2024. Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Report, Emerging Infections Program Network, Group B Streptococcus, 2024. www.cdc.gov/abcs/downloads/GBS_Surveillance_Report_2024.pdf
  
  
• Content Notes:
  Date of publication from document properties.
• Subjects:
  Bacterial Infections Communicable Diseases Disease Notification Group B Streptococcus Infant, Newborn, Diseases Public Health Surveillance Sepsis Streptococcal Infections Streptococcus Agalactiae
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Annual Report
• Division:
  Division of Bacterial Diseases
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
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