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AIMED - Let's talk about antibiotics 
Microlab comment: beta-haemolytic streptococci isolated from blood
Here is another one used for uncomplicated bloodstream infection events: Infections due to these species of streptococci are usually rapidly responsive to appropriate antibiotic therapy which can be of short duration with no minimum IV requirement as endocarditis is not a usual consideration. Penicillin resistance has not been documented and flucloxacillin is just as active (see […]