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Descriptor English: Streptococcus pyogenes
Descriptor Spanish: Streptococcus pyogenes
Descriptor Streptococcus pyogenes
Scope note: Especie de bacterias cocoides grampositivas que se aíslan de lesiones cutáneas, sangre, exudados inflamatorios y vías respiratorias altas de los seres humanos. Es un estreptococo hemolítico del grupo A que puede causar ESCARLATINA y FIEBRE REUMÁTICA. A diferencia de las cepas que no son virulentas (que producen faringitis estreptocócica), las cepas virulentas penetran profundamente en el organismo, con resultados catastróficos. Se ha demostrado que las infecciones invasivas por estreptococos A pueden producir el síndrome de choque tóxico, pueden dañar los músculos (MIOSITIS) o destruir las fascias que los recubren (FASCITIS NECROTIZANTE).
Descriptor Portuguese: Streptococcus pyogenes
Descriptor French: Streptococcus pyogenes
Entry term(s): Bacteria, Flesh-Eating
Flesh-Eating Bacteria
Streptococcus Group A
Tree number(s): B03.353.750.737.872.575
B03.510.400.800.872.575
B03.510.550.737.872.575
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013297
Scope note: A species of gram-positive, coccoid bacteria isolated from skin lesions, blood, inflammatory exudates, and the upper respiratory tract of humans. It is a group A hemolytic Streptococcus that can cause SCARLET FEVER and RHEUMATIC FEVER.
Annotation: infection: coordinate with STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; note entry term BACTERIA, FLESH-EATING: consider also FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING
Allowable Qualifiers: CH chemistry
CL classification
CY cytology
DE drug effects
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
GE genetics
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PH physiology
PY pathogenicity
RE radiation effects
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Entry Version: STREP PYOGENES
Related: Picibanil MeSH
Streptolysins MeSH
DeCS ID: 13684
Unique ID: D013297
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2015/04/15
Streptococcus pyogenes - Preferred
Concept UI M0020575
Scope note A species of gram-positive, coccoid bacteria isolated from skin lesions, blood, inflammatory exudates, and the upper respiratory tract of humans. It is a group A hemolytic Streptococcus that can cause SCARLET FEVER and RHEUMATIC FEVER.
Preferred term Streptococcus pyogenes
Entry term(s) Streptococcus Group A
Bacteria, Flesh-Eating - Narrower
Concept UI M0020576
Preferred term Bacteria, Flesh-Eating
Entry term(s) Flesh-Eating Bacteria



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