An invasion of the blood stream by the germ called Streptococcus haemolyticus may be one of the most dreadful diseases that can befall a human being. The germ, breeding in the blood, destroys the red ...

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Of puerperal (childbed) fever caused by Streptococcus haemolyticus more than 3,000 U. S. women die every year. Although sulfanilamide has miraculously cured thousands of puerperal infections, ...

IT has been recently demonstrated by McIlwain, Fildes, Gladstone and Knight 1 that glutamine is an essential growth factor for most strains of hæmolytic streptocci freshly isolated from pathological ...

THERE is evidence of immunological cross-reaction between structural glycoproteins extracted from human or bovine heart valves and parietal polysaccharides of haematolytic group A streptococci 1,2.

THE study of the spread of bacterial pathogens in a free-living human population presents obvious difficulties. We have considered that a practical method was, first, to determine some common endemic ...