Epidemiologic research to assess some socioeconomic aspects of health care in patients with infections caused by group A beta hemolytic streptococcus and their complications

: Authors present some epidemiological aspects of medical and socioeconomic implications caused by group A beta hemolytic streptococcus (ABHS) infections and by their complications, assessed on 10948 inpatients with angina, 323 with scarlet fever, and 644 with erysipelas, hospitalized in the City of Galati, between 2000-2003. All these three major diseases determined by ABHS needed 79125 days of hospitalization, with an average period of 6.4 days for angina, 76 for scarlet fever, and 10.4 for erysipelas. The costs of the mere hospitalization of these inpatients (11915) amounted to 14,479,543,800 lei. This fact highlights how costly the infections caused by AHBS are.