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Reservoir is human skin and oropharynx/mucous membranes.
Person-to-person transmission.
Occasionally foodborne.
Exhaustive and fascinating list of suppurative and non-suppurative infections.
Most common manifestations are:
Other invasive infections:
Post-infectious immunologically mediated phenomena such as glomerulonephritis and rheumatic fever.
Scarlet fever.
Precautions:
Precautions for pneumonia:
Precautions for meningitis: