Miscellaneous Catalase-Negative, Gram-Positive Cocci: Emerging Opportunists

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In a whimsical mood and quite extemporaneously, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once remarked: 'Facts in isolation amount to mere gossip; facts in relation become philosophy.' And this, perhaps, gives the key to one of the chief ailments of bacterial taxonomy.There are too many 'facts in isolation' and too few 'facts in relation'"From James M. Sherman's classic 1937 treatise on the genus Streptococcus (20) Clinical...

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