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Volume 20, Number 5—May 2014
Research

Streptococcus mitis Strains Causing Severe Clinical Disease in Cancer Patients

Samuel A. ShelburneComments to Author , Pranoti Sahasrabhojane, Miguel Saldana, Hui Yao, Xiaoping Su, Nicola Horstmann, Erika Thompson, and Anthony R. Flores
Author affiliations: MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA (S.A. Shelburne, P. Sahasrabhojane, M. Saldana, H. Yao, X. Su, N. Horstmann, E. Thompson); Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA (A.R. Flores)

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A) Pitt bacteremia scores for cancer patients infected with particular VGS species, showing that more clinically severe disease is caused by Streptococcus mitis strains than other viridans group streptococci (VGS) species. B) Pitt bacteremia scores for only those cancer patients with neutropenia. A, B) p values refer to Mann-Whitney U comparison of Pitt bacteremia scores for patients infected with S. mitis strains versus those infected with non–S. mitis strains. Infan., infantis; aust., australi

Figure 2. A) Pitt bacteremia scores for cancer patients infected with particular VGS species, showing that more clinically severe disease is caused by Streptococcus mitis strains than other viridans group streptococci (VGS) speciesB) Pitt bacteremia scores for only those cancer patients with neutropeniap values refer to Mann-Whitney U comparison of Pitt bacteremia scores for patients infected with Smitis strains versus those infected with non–Smitis strainsinfan., infantis; aust., australis; para., parasanguinis; sang., sanguinus; angi., anginosus; cons., constellatus; sali., salivarius; vest., vestibularis.

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