STREPTOCOCCI AND AEROCOCCI ASSOCIATED WITH SYSTEMIC INFECTION IN MAN
STREPTOCOCCI AND AEROCOCCI ASSOCIATED WITH SYSTEMIC INFECTION IN MAN
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DOI:
10.1099/00222615-9-3-275
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
BALL, LC
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作者:
PARKER, MT;BALL, LC
Isolates (820) of streptococci and aerococci from human blood or internal organs were classified by cultural and biochemical tests. Of these, 719 (712 streptococci and 7 aerococci) were from patients apparently suffering from a systemic infection: endocarditis (317); purulent lesion in an internal organ (purulent disease, (152); and bacteriemia (250). The endocarditis streptococci included members of all recognizable taxa, but only some of these were common: Streptococcus sanguis, 16.4%; dextran-positive and usually mannitol-fermenting strains of S. bovis, 15.1%; S. mutans, 14.2%; S. mitior, 13.2%. Streptococci of the .alpha.-hemolytic taxa (S. sanguis, S. mitior and related strains) formed only 44.8% of the total. When the percentage frequency of streptococcal taxa among the endocarditis and non-endocarditis isolates was compared, the dextran-forming taxa (S. mutans, S. bovis I, S. sanguis, and dextran-positive streptococci otherwise resembling S. mitior) all had higher endocarditis: non-endocarditis ratios resembling S. mitior) all had higher endocarditis: non-endocarditis ratios than did any of the non-dextran-producing taxa. Endocarditis increased in frequency with age, and showed an excess of males over females up to the age of 65 yr. In young patients (< 35 yr) .alpha.-hemolytic streptococci predominated; with increasing age, the proportion of other streptococci increase progressively but the absolute numbers of isolations of .alpha.-hemolytic streptococci did not fall. Infections with S. mutans were prominent in the age group 35-54 yr and with S. bovis at ages .gtoreq. 55 years. A history of previous heart disease was more often obtained in endocarditis due to .alpha.-hemolytic streptococci than in other streptococcal endocarditis. The Streptococcus most often isolated from purulent lesions in internal organs was S. milleri (29.3%). It was associated with brain abscess, meningitis, pleural empyema and a variety of intra-abdominal abscesses. The only common predisposing factor in endocarditis was previous heart damage. In other systemic streptococcal diseases, other general or local predisposing causes could be observed, mainly in infections with the pyogenic groupable streptococci, the enterococci and S. milleri.