scholarly journals Activity of nine antimicrobial agents against Lancefield group C and group G streptococci.

1982 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 930-932 ◽  
Author(s):  
K V Rolston ◽  
J L LeFrock ◽  
R F Schell
1982 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. F. Lawal ◽  
A. O. Coker ◽  
E. O. Solanke ◽  
O. Ogunbi

Medicine ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARL VARTIAN ◽  
PHILLIP I. LERNER ◽  
DAVID M. SHLAES ◽  
K. V. GOPALAKRISHNA

1987 ◽  
Vol 99 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Cohen ◽  
M. Ferne ◽  
T. Rouach ◽  
S. Bergner-Rabinowitz

SUMMARYA food-borne outbreak of sore throat caused by Lancefield group G β-haemolytic streptococci and involving 50 persons occurred in May 1983 in an Israeli military camp. All of the patients available for clinical examination had sore throat and difficulty in swallowing. Exudative tonsillitis occurred in 46% of the patients and the body temperature was above 37·5 °C in 81%. The pattern of attack was uniform over the base and 37 became ill during the night and morning of the 5 May. Thirty-two (84%) of the throat cultures taken from 37 patients grew group G β-haemolytic streptococci. Eight of 29 contacts were positive for group G β-haemolytic streptococci and 6 of the 28 foodhandlers examined had positive cultures of the same group. The organism was also isolated from one food sample. The epidemiological and laboratory investigations indicated that a food handler, a convalescent carrier of group G streptococci, might have been the source of infection. Assumptions on the potential of non-group A streptococci to cause epidemics are discussed.


2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 402-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Yin ◽  
Sangjie Yu ◽  
Xiaorong Liu ◽  
Ye Li ◽  
Wei Gao ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTEighty group G streptococcal stains were collected from Chinese children. Susceptibility testing was done by a double-dilution and a disk diffusion method. PCR was used to test drug-resistant genes, and the χ2test and definite probability methods were used to test for statistically significant differences among the three groups. Thirty-four isolates (42.5%) showed resistance to erythromycin. There are differences between the resistance characteristics of group G streptococci from different regions of China.


2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Fred Olufemi ◽  
Evelyn Okpara ◽  
Paul Akinduti ◽  
Ernest Ojo ◽  
John Nwata

1983 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Androulla Efstratiou

SUMMARYA collection of more than 300 strains belonging to either Lancefield group C or group G was made. The cultures had been isolated either sporadically from patients with serious disease or as apparent clusters from various nosocomial outbreaks. T-protein antigens were sought. So far, nine distinct serotypes have been found among the group G streptococci and seven serotypes amongst theStreptococcus equisimilis(group C) strains. Of the sixteen serotypes, four were the original T-types 7, 16, 20 and 21 described by Griffith (1934). Because of the similarities of representatives of the two groups to Lancefield group A streptococci (Griffith, 1934; Maxted & Potter, 1967) a few strains not unexpectedly carried T antigens usually seen in group A streptococci. Using this scheme it has been possible to serotype 76% ofS. equisimilisstrains of human origin and 82% of group G streptococci from human clinical material. A small collection of group C and group G streptococci of animal origin could not be serotyped with the experimental T-antisera.


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