Focuses on a study which described several cases of sepsis and meningitis caused by
viridans streptococci in neutropenic children with hematologic diseases. Description of …

Three cases of viridans group streptococcal bacteremia in 2 children with brain tumours and
in 1 with autoimmune neutropenia are presented. All children were neutropenic. The 2 …

Two patients are described with meningitis caused by multiply antibiotic-resistant strains of
viridans streptococci; both isolates were resistant to penicillin (MIC> 3 μg/ml)(4.8 U/ml) and …

A review of the hospital records of 71 patients from whose blood viridans streptococci were
isolated showed that in 13 cases the patient's illness was definitely related to the …

This is a review of the symptoms and signs of children with malignant diseases and
septicemia due to viridans streptococci, treated during a 6-year-period (1990-1995) in the …

The association of viridans streptococci and bacteremia in the immunocompromised cancer
patient was first reported in 1978 from the National Cancer Institute and the MD Anderson …

Thirty-three infants with meningitis due to group B streptococcus were evaluated. There was
a preponderance of females and white infants among the study group. Twenty of 23 …

We have retrospectively evaluated 24 sepsis episodes caused by viridans streptococci in 23
neutropenic children during a 21 months period at the Pediatric Hematology Unit of St. Louis …

In children under 5 years of age, presenting to the paediatric emergency room with clinical
and radiological findings of pneumonia, viridans streptococci were isolated in 10/33 positive …

Looks into the case of a child with meningitis caused by a streptococcus of the viridans
group. Examination of the child's skull after experiencing bifrontal headaches; Detection of …