BACKGROUND Acute rheumatic fever is a major cause of heart disease in Aboriginal Australians. The epidemiology differs from that observed in regions with temperate climates; streptococcal pharyngitis is reportedly rare, and pyoderma is highly prevalent. A link between pyoderma and acute rheumatic fever has been proposed but is yet to be proven. Group C beta-hemolytic streptococci and group G be...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Beta haemolytic streptococci belonging to Lancefield group A, B, C and G cause a wide spectrum of clinical diseases. Hence there is a need for rapid and accurate typing of these strains. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the use of intact cell matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) for rapid discrimination b...

background and aims. espar is a dairy product of probiotic nature that contains useful bacteria and high calcium con-tent. the aim of this study was to analyze effects of daily consumption of espar on the number of salivary mutans strepto-cocci and the level of calcium content in a population of 15 to 17 year-old female students. materials and methods. a double-blind randomized crossover study ...

this study was undertaken to determine the antibiotic sensitivity of 686 strains of hemolytic streptococci isolated at the school of public health, divi­sion of streptococcal studies, to five antibiotics in vitro. all of the strains were sensitive to penicillin, erythromycin, chloramphenicol and ampicillin. 27 (4%) of the strains, were resistant to tetracyclin. the clinical implications of this...

a total of 711 beta-hemolytic streptococci were isolated from throat cultures of patients during 1970-73. these strains were grouped in parallel by the precipitin and bacitracin paper disk method. the former method was estab­lished as the standard by which the bacitracin technique was compared. the difference in results was about 5.67%. the greatest error (5.4%) was seen with non-group a strain...

A total of 98.7% of streptococci, groups A,B,C, and G, isolated from various sources was correctly identified by the co-agglutination technique. The active components in this technique are protein A-containing staphylococci coated with antibodies specific for group A,B,C, and G streptococci. A suspension of streptococci belonging to one of these four groups co-agglutinates with the antibody-sen...

A new method for the serological grouping of streptococci by coagglutination with specific antibodies absorbed to protein A-containing staphylococci has been assessed. A total of 242 strains of streptococci, including beta-haemolytic streptococci of groups A, B, C, F, and G, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Strep. faecalis were studied. All streptococci of groups A, B, C, and G, groupable by standa...

Introduction & Objective: The aim evaluate the relationship between salivary cortisol and viable count of mutans streptococci. in abuse patient.by using cobass device to determine level of salivary cortisol in two group and count colony of bacteria mutans streptococci (CFU/ml) by identification and culturing method. Methods: This study included a sample of 86 participants  aged 17–30 years old...

OBJECTIVE To determine the vaginal-rectal colonization rate with group A streptococci in late pregnancy. METHODS All patients delivering at a northern New England hospital over a 38 month period had 35-37 week vaginal-rectal swabs cultured for group A and group B streptococci, using selective media and slide agglutination. RESULTS Six thousand nine hundred forty-four screening cultures were...