group A streptococci
New protective antigen of group A streptococci
... of group A streptococci (Table 3), confirming the presence of opson- ic epitopes within this limited region of ...of group A streptococ- ci by Spa ...of group A strep- tococci other than type ...
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The influence of the site of infection on the immune response to group A streptococci
... The immune response after streptococcal infection of the skin and of the upper respiratory tract (URT) was studied prospectively in a group of normal children, ages 3-6 yr. The children were examined and cultures ...
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Comparison of methods for obtaining serum opacity factor from group A streptococci
... Streptococcal serum opacity factor (OF), an enzyme that reacts with and causes opacity in mammalian sera (9, 17, 18), is produced by group A streptococci (GAS) of certain M pro- tein serotypes (3, 5, 14, ...
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Potential Mechanisms for Failure to Eradicate Group A Streptococci From the Pharynx
... penicillin group, 84% and ce- fadroxil group, ...cefadroxil group (94%) than for the patients in the penicillin group (86%) (P , ...cefadroxil group and 3 (1.6%) patients in the ...
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Excretion of Lipoteichoic Acid by Group A Streptococci: INFLUENCE OF PENICILLIN ON EXCRETION AND LOSS OF ABILITY TO ADHERE TO HUMAN ORAL MUCOSAL CELLS
... chromatography. The ability of the same materials to bind to human erythrocytes and epithelial cells was tested. The culture supernate contained lipoteichoic acid, deacylated lipoteichoic acid, glycerol phosphate, and ...
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Restricted association between biotypes and serotypes within group A streptococci
... Correlations between biotypes and serotypes observed in the pharyngitis series were compared with results obtained from 11 reference strains of frequently encountered serotypes from diff[r] ...
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Clonal Diversity of Group A Streptococci Causing Human Infections in Southern India.
... GAS, commonly known as Group A Streptococcus (GAS), is a bacterial pathogen that infects the throat and skin and is able to cause a wide range of diseases in humans [1]. This ranges from pharyngitis (strep throat) ...
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Evaluation of the Bacti Lab streptococci culture systems for selective recovery and identification of group A streptococci
... Twenty-nine lots of Bacti-Lab streptococci culture plates containing nalidixic acid, neomycin, and amphotericin B were inoculated with 25 strains of group A, B, C, F, and G streptococci,[r] ...
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Identification of sequence types among the M nontypeable group A streptococci
... Although it is clear that all the designated STs were different from each other and from the published sequences of the genes for M proteins, there appeared to be some sequence relatedne[r] ...
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EFFECT OF PENICILLIN ON GROUP A STREPTOCOCCI IN VIVO IN THE ABSENCE OF LEUCOCYTES
... Finally, penicillin given 24 hours after disk implantation, after the streptococci had reached the plateau phase in their growth, failed to effect any reduction in the number of viable b[r] ...
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Effect of Resistance to Chloramphenicol on Bacteriophage Sensitivity of Group A Streptococci
... 10 '100 0 E z Downloaded from http://jvi.asm.org/ on November 11, 2019 by guest C, FRIEND AND SLADE DISCUSSION The results outlined here suggest that the CMresistant strains of group A s[r] ...
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Antibiotic Resistance: Relationship to Persistence of Group A Streptococci in the Upper Respiratory Tract
... Smith TD, Huskins WC, Kim KS, et aL Efficacy of beta-lactamase- resistant penicillin and influence of penicillin tolerance in eradicating streptococci from pharynx after failure of penic[r] ...
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Biofilm Formation by Group A Streptococci: Is There a Relationship with Treatment Failure?
... herently less susceptible to a variety of antibiotic therapies than the same bacteria grown in planktonic form (9, 17, 22). These findings hold true for gram-negative and gram-positive microorganisms, including species ...
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SEPTICEMIA OF THE NEWBORN
... antibiotic therapy was associated with a decline in mortality iii sepsis due to Group. A streptococci to 34%[r] ...
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CONCEPTUAL REVIEW ON MADHU MEHAJA VRANA .......
... Fetid foot, diabetes, diabetes mellitus, foot infections, cellulitis, osteomyelitis, microvascular disease, group a streptococci, group B streptococci, staph infection Diabeti[r] ...
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Temporal trends of β haemolytic streptococcal osteoarticular infections in western Norway
... small case series published decades ago [7]. The few retrospective cohort studies published revealed a pre- dominance of β -haemolytic streptococci, with group A Streptococci (GAS) and group B ...
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Prevalence of Group B streptococci in pregnant women and their neonates
... for Group B Streptococci in vaginal swab specimens similar to those used for direct detection of Group A Streptococci in throat swab ...anti- Group B Streptococci antibodies to ...
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Natural History of Neonatal Colonization With Group B Streptococci
... The observation that previously unde- tected group B streptococcal colonization occurs following hospital discharge is new and might explain recurrent group B streptococcal disease in ne[r] ...
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Nosocomial Transmission of Group B Streptococci in a Newborn Nursery
... were no significant changes in colonization rates of either n#{236}others or infants l)etween the time of hospital discharge amid follow-tip evaluation four to eight weeks later. The vag[r] ...
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Comparison of epidemic and endemic group G streptococci by restriction enzyme analysis
... Figure lA shows one of two identical fingerprint patterns from the isolate from the laboratory technician and representative patterns of isolates from four of the five food handlers that[r] ...
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