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Immune Response: To Anaerobic Bacteria Causing Septicemia and to Anaerobic Cocci

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Anaerobic Bacteria

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Anaerobic bacteremia may be caused by a variety of anaerobic bacteria. The organisms which we have isolated from blood cultures over a 10 year period from 1968-1978, at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia and at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts include: Bacteroides fragilis, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, Bacteroides melaninogenicus, Fusobacterium nucleatum, Fusobacterium necrophorum, Fusobacterium varium, Clostridium perfringens, Clostridium septicum, Eubacterium lentum, Eubacterium cylindroides, Eubacterium saburreum, Propionibacterium acnes, Peptococcus magnus, Peptococcus prevotii, Peptococcus asaccharolyticus, Peptostreptococcus anaerobius, Streptococcus constellatus, Streptococcus intermedins, and Streptococcus morbillorum. Other laboratories have reported some of these same species from blood cultures in addition to other species. Wilson et al. (31) reported Eubacterium alactolyticum, Bifidobacterium species, Bacteroides oralis, Bacteroides terrebrans, and Clostridium paraputrificum from blood cultures.

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    Dwight W. Lambe Jr. Ph.D. (Professor and Chairman)

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    K. J. Mayberry-Carson

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Lambe, D.W. (1980). Immune Response: To Anaerobic Bacteria Causing Septicemia and to Anaerobic Cocci. In: Lambe, D.W., Genco, R.J., Mayberry-Carson, K.J. (eds) Anaerobic Bacteria. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3159-9_19

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