title: Profile of fatal Streptococcal bacteraemia at a tertiary care Indian hospital.
abstract: 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 being sensitive to Penicillin. Hence, timely intervention in all suspected cases is strongly advocated. All isolates of beta-haemolytic Streptococci should be identified up till the species level and antimicrobial susceptibility be performed so that proper and early management can be done.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Center Trauma Centre, All India Institutes of Medical Sciences, Delhi - 110 029, India.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Punia
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bhardwaj
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mathur
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Misra
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000235:genetics; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D013291:Streptococcus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D062606:Tertiary Care Centers
chemical_list: D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial