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Streptococcus Discovery
The first description is attributed to the Austrian surgeon, Theodor Billroth when he described the organism in cases of wound infections. -
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Symptoms
Symptoms for this disease are pain when swallowing, fever, chills, and malaise, nausea or vomiting, and sore throat. -
Strep Throat
Strep throat is a bacterial infection that can make your throat feel sore and scratchy. Strep throat accounts for only a small portion of sore throats. If untreated, strep throat can cause complications, such as kidney inflammation or rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever can lead to painful and inflamed joints, a specific type of rash, or heart valve damage. -
Formal Entry into History
Louis Pasteur isolated the microorganism from the uteruses and blood of women with puerperal fever. -
Spread of the disease
Disease spreads by human to human contact such as sharing containers and silverware, and by not practicing good hygiene such as hand washing, -
Refinement of the Name Streptococcus
Friedrich Julius Rosenbach examined bacteria isolated from lesions and named the species Streptococcus pyogenes -
Pandemic
In August 2008, the National Institutes of Health released a report indicating that a majority of deaths caused during the 1918 flu pandemic resulted from a pneumonia infection after the flu virus. “In essence, the virus landed the first blow while bacteria delivered the knockout punch,” Dr. Anthony S. Fauci stated. -
Group A Streptococcus
Group A Streptococcus illnesses are spread human to human and include strep throat and rheumatic fever. Some of these are contagious. -
Human Diseases Caused by Streptococcus
Strep sore throat - streptococcal pharyngitis and if accompanied by a rash it is know as scarlet fever. Rheumatic fever has all but disappeared from industrialized countries after being a frequent problem in the 1940s and 1950s. The disease still occurs at high rates in resource limited settings and in Indigenous populations in industrialized countries, particularly in Australia and New Zealand, -
Most Cases Found
Locations in geographic areas are Europe, North America, Africa, Israel, and Chile.