Hydrogen Peroxide Production by <named-content content-type="genus-species">Streptococcus pneumoniae</named-content> Results in Alpha-hemolysis by Oxidation of Oxy-hemoglobin to Met-hemoglobin

ABSTRACT Streptococcus pneumoniae and other streptococci produce a greenish halo on blood agar plates referred to as alpha-hemolysis. This phenotype is utilized by clinical microbiology laboratories to report culture findings of alpha-hemolytic streptococci, including S. pneumoniae, and other bacter...

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Auteurs principaux: Erin McDevitt, Faidad Khan, Anna Scasny, Courtney D. Thompson, Zehava Eichenbaum, Larry S. McDaniel, Jorge E. Vidal
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Langue:EN
Publié: American Society for Microbiology 2020
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