Streptococcus a does not seem to play this part, but, unlike Streptococcus b, is able to coagulate milk on its own account.
Streptococcus b forms smaller cells as well as smaller colonies than Streptococcus a, but produces more lactic acid and more gas, and retains its vitality after desiccation.
Of the two streptococci isolated, Streptococcus a resembles organisms of the group Streptococcus lacticus in appearance, but is able to ferment milk, with weak acid and gas production, and is capable of inducing coagulation.
Contrary to what one would expect in an organism existing in keffir grains, this streptococcus is as little able to withstand desiccation as the above-mentioned yeast.
This slimy change is due to the growth ofStreptococcus Hollandicus.
This fermentation, the essential feature of which is produced by a culture of Streptococcus Hollandicus,[181] develops acid in a marked degree, thereby inhibiting the production of gas.
Suppuration and erysipelas are the only pathological conditions in which the causal agency of streptococcushas been sufficiently established.
Streptococcus erysipelatis, and yet it is aided in its growth by B.
This latter fact gave support to the theory that streptococcus reproduced itself by arthrospores, or "mother-cells.
But whilst we have examples of this association in streptococcus and the bacillus of diphtheria, B.
Marmorek has devised a method by which the virulence may be greatly increased, and he holds that it depends upon the degree of virulence possessed by any particular streptococcus as to what effects it will produce.
Streptococcus pyogenes has been isolated from the membrane of diphtheria, and from small-pox, scarlet fever, vaccinia, and other diseases.
Professor Crookshank found that carbolic acid, 1 in 40, acting for only one minute is sufficient to destroy Streptococcus pyogenes, S.
Several other bacteria have from time to time been held responsible for pneumonia, a streptococcus receiving, at one time, some support.
The organism used in making Edam cheese is the Streptococcus Hollandicus, and in hot milk it can produce ropiness in one day.
B, streptococcus and staphylococcus when these organisms were suspended in ordinary bouillon culture or sterile salt solutions.
The paper shows the etiologic relation of Streptococcus viridans rather than the value of vaccines.
Coli-Combined-Bacterin, said to contain killed Streptococcus viridans, Streptococcus hemolyticus and Bacillus coli.
Daus also found that agar and broth cultures of streptococcus shaken with Formamint saliva remained sterile.
Experiment with streptococcus: Cultures of streptococcusin blood agar three days old were suspended in olive oil (sterile), and chlorlyptus was added in the proportions of 1, 5 and 10 per cent.
Germicidal action of chlorlyptus on streptococcus suspended in sterile human blood serum.
Levy reports experiments as follows: Agar plates were prepared with a culture of streptococcus from a severe case of quinsy.
The individuals in a streptococcus grouping are most commonly elongated, either in the same direction as the length of the chain, or at right angles to it.
All bacteria producing Streptococcus chains form a single genus Streptococcus, and all which divide in three division planes form another genus, Sarcina, etc.
The common pus micrococci are grouped under three species, Staphylococcus pyogenes aureus, Staphylococcus pyogenes, and Streptococcus pyogenes.
The intruders against whom all these preparations are made are two in number: Streptococcus pyogenes and Staphylococcus pyogenes--cousins, as you see, by their names.
Now, if you can think of any possible chink through which a wandering streptococcus can, by any possibility, sneak into that wound, please suggest it, and it shall be closed immediately!
An article by Moore, however, which has just appeared from this same laboratory, states that "an organism of the streptococcus viridans type was isolated from the blood" in a case of adult scurvy.
That the normal vital resistance of rabbits to infection by streptococcus pyogenes is markedly diminished through the influence of alcohol when given daily to the stage of acute intoxication.
Like septicæmia, this condition is due to pyogenic bacteria, thestreptococcus pyogenes being the commonest organism found.
Where neither radium nor X-rays is available or applicable, recourse may be had to the injection of Coley's fluid, a preparation containing the mixed toxins of the streptococcus of erysipelas and the bacillus prodigiosus; or of selenium.
The streptococcus has less capacity of liquefying the tissues than the staphylococcus, so that pus formation takes place more slowly.
This may be a wound or a purulent blister, and the streptococcus pyogenes is the organism most frequently present.
The chief risks of oöphorectomy for inflammatory conditions are undetected injury to bowel, especially the rectum, and septic peritonitis when the streptococcus is present in the tubes in acute cases.
Not definitely known, although thought by Klein and Gordon to be the streptococcus scarlatinae.
This disease is supposed to be caused by the streptococcus erysipelatis.
Streptococcus infection of the embalmer from abrasions of the skin is very dangerous and every possible precaution should be carefully taken.
One of the most frequent is the Streptococcus viridans.
Streptococcus viridons, by antogenous vaccines has confirmed his opinion.
The Streptococcus rheumaticus found in rheumatic joints is probably the cause of such heart injury in rheumatism.
The Streptococcus viridans is one of the most dangerous of these bacteria.
The streptococcusmay cause suppuration in erysipelas, mixed infection not being necessary to cause pus to form.
It is caused by the streptococcus of erysipelas, which grows and multiplies in the smaller lymph channels of the skin and its subcutaneous cellular layers, and in serous and mucous membranes.
Streptococcus pyogenes is found in spreading suppurations and in very acute abscesses.
The coccus of erysipelas is larger than the ordinary form of streptococcus pyogenes, and infection takes place through a wound, often a very trivial one, or through a mucous membrane.
Cultivations from the liver gave a pure growth of what appeared to be a typical (non-capsulated) Streptococcus pyogenes longus.
Streptococcus pyogenes from a case of empyema (Jakob).
The presence of the streptococcusshould be a cause of uneasiness, since it much more frequently leads to mastoid disease and meningitis than does the pneumococcus.
Lignières has found in hemoglobinuria a streptococcus which produced nephritis, bloody urine, and paraplegia in experimental animals, including horses.
Among the newer forms of treatment are diluted Lugol's solution injected into the trachea, anti-streptococcus serum and colloidal silver solution injected into the circulation.
Strangles or distemper is, according to most pathologists, due to the Streptococcus equi.
It is practically a fact that wherever there is found a diffuse abscess there will be discovered the streptococcus pyogenes, which is the name of the chain coccus above mentioned.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "streptococcus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
