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Streptococci
Streptococci are aerobic organisms that causes many disorders, including pharyngitis, pneumonia, wound and skin infections, sepsis, and endocarditis. Symptoms vary with the organ infected. Sequelae of infections due to group A beta-hemolytic streptococci may include rheumatic fever and glomerulonephritis. Most strains are sensitive to penicillin, although macrolide-resistant strains have recently emerged.
Streptococci are aerobic organisms that causes many disorders, including pharyngitis, pneumonia, wound and skin infections, sepsis, and endocarditis. Symptoms vary with the organ infected. Sequelae of infections due to group A beta-hemolytic streptococci may include rheumatic fever and glomerulonephritis. Most strains are sensitive to penicillin, although macrolide-resistant strains have recently emerged.
Types of streptococci
Three different types of streptococci are initially differentiated by their appearance when they are grown on sheep blood agar:
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Beta-hemolytic streptococci produce zones of clear hemolysis around each colony.
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Alpha-hemolytic streptococci (commonly called viridans streptococci) are surrounded by green discoloration resulting from incomplete hemolysis.
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Gamma-hemolytic streptococci are nonhemolytic.
Subsequent classification, based on carbohydrates in the cell
wall, divides streptococci into Lancefield groups A through H and K
through T.
Viridans streptococci form a separate group that is difficult to
classify. In the Lancefield classification, enterococci were initially
included among the group D streptococci. More recently, enterococci have been classified as a separate genus.
