Infect Chemother.
2003 Feb;35(1):57-60.
A Case of Endophthalmitis due to Group G beta-hemolytic Streptococcus Sepsis
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- 1Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. imfell@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr
- 2Department of Family Medicine, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
- Identified first by Lancefield and Hare in 1935, the group G streptococcus occurs as commensals in the skin, pharynx, intestine, and vagina. It has been reported to cause a variety of human infections, such as sepsis, endocarditis, peritonitis, pharyngitis, and infective arthritis. Group G streptococcus sepsis could occur in chronic states such as malignancy, diabetes, alcoholics, neurologic disease, cardiovarscular disease, and end stage renal disease, however, there has been only a few case reports of endogenous endopthalmitis caused by group G streptococcus. We report herein endogenous endopthalmitis caused by group G streptococcus sepsis in 64-year-old man of alcoholic.
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