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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Mar 22.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Dec 6;73(11):e3718–e3726. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa787

Table 1.

Invasive GAS Patients With Documented Injection Drug Use (IDU) Only, Homelessness Only, Both, or Neither by ABCs Site, 2010–2017

Neither Risk Factor (N = 10 807)
IDU Only (N = 683)
Homelessness Only (N = 531)
Both IDU and Homelessness (N = 365)
ABCs Site % (95% CI) % (95% CI) % (95% CI) % (95% CI)
California (3 San Francisco Bay area counties) 72.7 (70.4–75.0) 7.0 (5.7–8.4) 13.0 (11.3–14.8) 7.3 (6.0–8.7)

Colorado (5 Denver metropolitan area counties) 85.6 (83.7–87.4) 2.6 (1.9–3.6) 8.7 (73–10.3) 3.0 (2.2–4.0)

Connecticut (entire state) 94.0 (92.4–95.4) 4.1 (3.0–5.5) .6 (.2–1.2) 1.3 (.7–2.2)

Georgia (20 Atlanta counties) 97.3 (96.3–98.1) 1.4 (.8–2.2) .9 (.5–1.5) .4 (.2–1.0)

Maryland (6 Baltimore counties) 78.8 (76.2–81.3) 12.7 (10.7–14.9) 1.9 (1.1–2.9) 6.6 (5.2–8.3)

Minnesota (entire state) 96.7 (95.8–97.5) 1.8 (1.2–2.5) 1.3 (.8–1.9) .2 (0–.5)

New Mexico (entire state) 83.8 (81.8–85.7) 9.7 (8.2–11.4) 3.8 (2.9–4.9) 2.7 (1.9–3.7)

New York (15 counties in Rochester and Albany) 94.4 (92.5–96.9) 4.8 (3.4–6.6) .1 (0–.7) .7 (.2–1.6)

Oregon (3 Portland counties) 75.3 (72.1–78.2) 8.1 (6.3–10.2) 8.7 (6.8–10.9) 7.9 (6.1–10.1)

Tennessee (20 counties) 90.1 (88.3–91.7) 6.5 (5.2–8.1) 2.1 (1.4–3.1) 1.3 (.7–2.1)

Abbreviations: ABCs, Active Bacterial Core surveillance; CI, confidence interval; GAS, group A Streptococcus infection; IDU, injection drug use.