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Profile of fatal Streptococcal bacteraemia at a tertiary care Indian hospital.
Indian journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jan 2000
Punia P, Bhardwaj N, Mathur P, Gupta G, Misra M C
Abstract excerpt
Streptococcus pyogenes causes mild to acutely life-threatening diseases. Herein, we report our experience with five cases of fatal bacteraemia due to various groups of Streptococci, three of them due to Group G Streptococcus and one case each due to Group A Streptococcus and Group F Streptococcus. The peculiarity of all these cases was the rapidity of deaths occurring in these patients despite all the strains...
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