Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated With Streptococcal Infection: A Case-Control Study Among Privately Insured Children.

The article presents a study that aims to determine the role of antecedent streptococcal infection in increasing the risk of diagnosis of disported in children including obsessive-compulsive disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. It examines the number of streptococcal infections recorded after the incident diagnosis of the disorders. It explores the specificity of new-onset of the disorders as sequelae of streptococcal infection with the use of a comparable association analysis. Information on the results of the study is also presented.