Acute glomerulonephritis in three siblings and suspected emm49-type Streptococcus pyogenes infection.
Three siblings with poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis are presented. Streptococcal infection, impetigo, and pharyngitis preceded the acute glomerulonephritis. In one patient, emm49-type Streptococcus pyogenes was isolated, a strain which has not been reported as nephritogenic in Japan.
Motoyama
Osamu
O
First Department of Pediatrics, Toho University School of Medicine, 6-11-1 Omori-nishi, Ota-ku, Tokyo 143-8541, Japan.
Hasegawa
Kei
K
Okamatsu
Chizuko
C
Tamaki
Kazutomo
K
Iitaka
Kikuo
K
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D013297:Streptococcus pyogenes / Q000472:pathogenicity*