Group A streptococci revisited.

Group A streptococci revisited In the first half of this century group A streptococci were one of the most important of all bacterial pathogens, causing large outbreaks of scarlet fever with a high mortality, puerperal fever and neonatal sepsis, rheumatic fever and glomerulonephritis as Well as suppurative conditions such as empyema, osteomyelitis, and septic arthritis. Time and penicillin have assuaged our fear and replaced it with complacency.