There are a number of different streptococci bacteria, causing symptoms ranging from a mild throat infection to life-threatening infections of the blood or organs. Anyone can be affected, from ...

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Streptococci when grown on a fermentable sugar-blood medium cause a characteristic brownish turbidity which soon involves the entire tube or plate. On nonfermentable sugar-blood medium no such change ...

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Anaerobic streptococci and other anaerobes have been isolated in cases of pulmonary gangrene, from isolated empyema or lung abscess, from infected pulmonary infarcts and from metastatic pulmonary ...

The study, which included nearly 400,000 newborns, also found that infection rates in newborns increased with decreasing gestational age and birth weight. The overall rate of infection was 0.98 ...

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Sources of Group B Streptococci, Boston City Hospital, July, 1962, to June, 1963. Table 1 also lists the number of strains of Group B streptococcus isolated in pure culture from the various sites.