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  1. Streptococcus zooepidemicus. Viridans streptococci. Streptococcus anginosus group. Streptococcus is a genus of gram-positive coccus ( pl.: cocci) or spherical bacteria that belongs to the family Streptococcaceae, within the order Lactobacillales (lactic acid bacteria), in the phylum Bacillota. [2]

  2. The term streptococcus (“twisted berry”) refers to the bacteria’s characteristic grouping in chains that resemble a string of beads. Streptococci are microbiologically characterized as gram-positive and nonmotile. Streptococcus contains a variety of species, some of which cause disease in humans and animals, while others are important in ...

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  3. The genus Streptococcus , a heterogeneous group of Gram-positive bacteria, has broad significance in medicine and industry. Various streptococci are important ecologically as part of the normal microbial flora of animals and humans; some can also cause diseases that range from subacute to acute or even chronic. Among the significant human diseases attributable to streptococci are scarlet fever ...

    • Maria Jevitz Patterson
    • 1996
  4. Bacilli. Order: Lactobacillales. Family: Streptococcaceae. Genera. Floricoccus Lactococcus Lactovum Okadaella Streptococcus. Streptococcaceae are a family of Gram-positive bacteria, placed within the order Lactobacillales. [1] Representative genera include Lactococcus, Lactovum, and Streptococcus .

  5. The Streptococcaceae are distinguished from the Micrococcaceae in that the former are catalase negative and the latter are catalase positive. In the Streptococcaceae family, only streptococci and aerococci are regularly isolated from specimens of human origin (see Table 2.1). There have been recent taxonomic changes in the family Streptococcaceae.

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  7. May 31, 2022 · Streptococcal diseases have been known for centuries, although their delineation into separate disease entities did not begin to occur until the 16th century AD. The original writings of Hippocrates from the 4th century BC describe the disease erysipelas (ἐρυσίπελας, red skin), as well as the symptoms of childbed fever, and “Galen remarks that not only erysipelas, but also ...

  8. Aug 3, 2016 · This paper again highlights the "art" of medicine in the need to carefully weigh each situation rather than to have "knee jerk" responses to clinical microbiological data. Streptococcus species answers are found in the Johns Hopkins ABX Guide powered by Unbound Medicine. Available for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Web.

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