Question 1

what is streptococcus?

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Family of bacteria: They are spherical bacteria that grow in chains mostly. They range from the very harmful bugs that cause rheumatic fever and many heart and skin infections to the microbes that decay teeth to some microbes that are in yoghurt that are supposed to be good for you.

Question 2

what is quinsy?

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Peritonsilar abscess: An abscess around the tonsils (peritonsillar) is referred to as quinsy.  It is usually caused by a bacterial infection.

Question 3

what is pneumoniae?

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Lung infection: pneumonia is a lower respiratory infection results in difficulty breathing fever chills and coughing it is treated with antibiotics

Question 4

what is penicillin?

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Antibiotic: Penicillin is one of the first antibiotic ever developed to treat infection.  Unfortunately, due to it's widespread and indiscriminate use, many bacteria became resistant to this great antibiotic.   
Today we still use it to treat many different types of infection caused by bacteria sensitive to penicillin.

Question 5

what exactly is streptomycin?

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Aminoglycoside: This antibiotic was one of the earliest discovered and used primarily to treat tuberculosis.  It is also used to treat some very severe bacterial infections, but because it is quite toxic, its use is limited.

Question 6

what is bacampicillin?

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Bacampicillin: Bacampicillin is a penicillin type antibiotic.

Question 7

what is streptococcus mutans?

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Strep mutans: Streptococcus mutans is a  gram-positive facultative anaerobe found in the human oral cavity and is a major contributor and cause of dental decay resulting in cavities. The microbe was first described by j kilian clarke in 1924.

Question 8

what is streptococcus hemolyticus?

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One strain: There are many strains and species of the Genus Streptococcus and hemolyticus is one species that often causes infections in humans.

Question 9

what is hemolytic streptococci?

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3 different kinds: Streptococci growing on so-called blood agar can be alpha-hemolytic (partial hemolysis) causing a ring of green around the colony, beta- hemolytic (complete hemolysis) causing a clear ring around the colony, or gamma-hemolytic (no hemolysis) with no ring around the colony.

Question 10

what is pre-pneumonia?

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No such medical cond: Your doctor maay be trying to simplify for you to understand that you might develop pneumonia, which can happen if you have bronchitis following sore throat and upper respiratory virus infections which are very common. Sometimes a pneumonia will follow after such infections.

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