title: Rapidly fatal hemorrhagic pneumonia and group A Streptococcus serotype M1.
abstract: We report 3 cases of fulminant hemorrhagic pneumonia in previously health patients. Sudden-onset hemoptysis and dyspnea developed; all 3 patients and died <12 h later of massive pulmonary bleeding, despite aggressive supportive care. Postmortem analysis showed that the illnesses were caused by group A Streptococcus emm1/sequence type 28 strains.
authors: Maria
authors: M
authors: Santagati
authors: Teresa
authors: T
authors: Spanu
authors: Marina
authors: M
authors: Scillato
authors: Rosaria
authors: R
authors: Santangelo
authors: Fabio
authors: F
authors: Cavallaro
authors: Vincenzo
authors: V
authors: Arena
authors: Giacomo
authors: G
authors: Castiglione
authors: Marco
authors: M
authors: Falcone
authors: Mario
authors: M
authors: Venditti
authors: Stefania
authors: S
authors: Stefani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D013297:Streptococcus pyogenes / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed