How to Use streptococcal in a Sentence

streptococcal

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• Other early symptoms can include fever, severe pain and a red, warm, or swollen area of skin that spreads quickly in the case of flesh-eating disease, and fever, chills, muscle aches, nausea and vomiting with streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.
  — Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
• Fleming recounted a moving story involving a patient with a streptococcal throat infection who didn't take enough penicillin, passed it on to his wife, leading to her death from the newly antibiotic-resistant strain.
  — Ariana Eunjung Cha, chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2017
• It had been thought streptococcal infections — the cause of strep throat — might be a trigger for some people who are genetically vulnerable to developing narcolepsy.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 5 July 2018
• Human mouths are dominated by streptococcal bacteria, which are good at eating sugars.
  — Erika Engelhaupt, National Geographic, 24 Oct. 2017
• Medical professionals are required to report cases of invasive Group A streptococcal disease to public health officers in order to prevent the spread of infection.
  — Iliana Magra, New York Times, 26 June 2019
• Doctors determined that Hubley was infected with group A streptococcal bacteria, according to the Washington Post, which likely triggered her case of necrotizing fasciitis.
  — Amanda MacMillan, PEOPLE.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• During an exploratory procedure, doctors found 1.5 liters of infected pus teeming with streptococcal bacteria in Breen's stomach.
  — Maria Carter, Woman's Day, 31 May 2017
• The incubation period for streptococcal pharyngitis is 2 to 5 days, Dr. Moffitt reports.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
• Did Johnny have straightforward recurrent streptococcal infections, a common and treatable infectious process that has afflicted children for generations?
  — Christopher Hartnick, STAT, 24 Jan. 2022
• There's a vaccine designed to protect people over 65 from pneumonia-causing streptococcal bacteria, but many other bacteria, from Staphylococcus to Mycoplasma pneumoniae, can cause pneumonia.
  — NBC News, 7 May 2018
• Streptococcus pyogenes, a spherical bacteria that typically grows in long chains, can cause minor infections like impetigo to potentially deadly diseases like streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• Two common infectious triggers include streptococcal and staphylococcus infections, says Golant.
  — Jillian Krame, Glamour, 20 July 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024