Ten-year prevalence of acute hospital ENT infections and the impact of COVID: A large population study.

Bassem Mettias David R Jenkins Peter Rea

Published in: Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery (2022)

A resurgence in scarlet fever directly and indirectly contributed to an incremental rise in acute ENT infections in the following years. Both hospital and community B-haemolytic cultures have declined during the COVID-19 pandemic due to a reduction in infections as opposed to reduced case ascertainment.

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