Journal: Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
Article Title: The Increase in Invasive Bacterial Infections With Respiratory Transmission in Germany, 2022/2023
doi: 10.3238/arztebl.m2023.0261
Figure Lengend Snippet: Invasive isolates (blood culture, sterile aspirate) of S. pneumoniae (n = 12 478), S. pyogenes (n = 6707), H. influenzae (n = 2037), and N. meningitidis (n = 332) per quarter (sampling date), 2017–2023, Germany (ARS, as of 11 April 2023)
Article Snippet: The Institute for Medical Microbiology at the University Hospital, RWTH Aachen University (appointed as National Reference Center [NRC] for streptococci up to the end of 2022) and the NRC for meningococci and H. influenzae receive voluntarily submitted invasive isolates of H. influenzae, N. meningitidis, S. pneumoniae , and S. pyogenes from all routine laboratories in Germany.
Techniques: Sterility, Sampling