This article discusses Streptococcus salivarius meningitis in a 39-year old woman. She was admitted to the hospital for general fatigue, headache, and fever. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis revealed leukocytosis and cultures were positive for Streptococcus salivarius. Streptococcus salivarius meningitis is rare and has been documented to be associated with procedures involving the spinal column su...

The non-hemolytic streptococci of the human throat form, simultaneously, one of the oldest and least known groups of the genus. These familiar but illdefined organisms are usually referred to as the "salivarius group," as "Streptococcus viridars" and "indifferent streptococci" according to the degree of greening produced in blood agar, or simply as the "mouth streptococcus." In their early clas...

Salivaricin G32, a 2667 Da novel member of the SA-FF22 cluster of lantibiotics, has been purified and characterized from Streptococcus salivarius strain G32. The inhibitory peptide differs from the Streptococcus pyogenes-produced SA-FF22 in the absence of lysine in position 2. The salivaricin G32 locus was widely distributed in BLIS-producing S. salivarius, with 6 (23%) of 26 strains PCR-positi...

Streptococcus salivarius subsp. salivarius occasionally causes meningitis associated with iatrogenic or traumatic events. We herein describe a case of meningitis caused by this organism in a patient without any apparent risk factors. In an assay of the patient's cerebrospinal fluid, cross-reaction occurred with Streptococcus pneumoniae antigen-coated latex particles in the Pastorex Meningitis K...

Objectives: To study and compare the number of colony forming units of Streptococcus mutans, Streptococcus sanguis, Streptococcus salivarius, Streptococcus mitis and Streptococcus milleri in dentulous, edentulous and in those wearing partial and complete dentures by using semi-quantitative culture method of saliva samples with calibrated standard loop. Materials: Sterile specimen collection bot...

Streptococcus salivarius strains are significant contributors to the human oral microbiome. Some possess unique fimbriae that give them the ability to coaggregate and colonize particular oral structures. We present here the complete genomes of Streptococcus salivarius Lancefield K-/K+ strains ATCC 25975 and ATCC 27945, which can and cannot, respectively, produce fimbriae.

The human commensal bacterium Streptococcus salivarius plays a major role in the equilibrium of microbial communities of the digestive tract. Here, we report the first complete genome sequence of a Streptococcus salivarius strain isolated from the small intestine, namely, HSISS4. Its circular chromosome comprises 1,903 coding sequences and 2,100,988 nucleotides.

In a previous paper (1) it was reported that certain non-hemolytic streptococci from the human throat are capable of synthesizing large amounts of a carbohydrate from sucrose and raffinose. These organisms seem to be similar to those studied by Oerskov and Poulsen (2). When grown on the surface of agar containing 5 per cent sucrose or raffinose, large mucoid colonies are produced which are abou...