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<i>Streptococcus mitis</i>Strains Causing Severe Clinical Disease in Cancer Patients
26 Mar 2014
Abstract excerpt
The genetically diverse viridans group streptococci (VGS) are increasingly recognized as the cause of a variety of human diseases. We used a recently developed multilocus sequence analysis scheme to define the species of 118 unique VGS strains causing bacteremia in patients with cancer; Streptococcus mitis (68 patients) and S. oralis (22 patients) were the most frequently identified strains. Compared with...
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