lung abscess/carbohydrate

Oral bacteria play an important rôle in the causation of oro-facial abscesses. However, they can also be involved in brain, liver and lung abscesses. To persist, it is essential that these bacteria can grow on those sites. The main source of nutrients for growth in abscesses is likely to be tissue

Georg, Lucille K. (Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, Ga.), Gordon W. Robertstad, and Sherry A. Brinkman. Identification of species of Actinomyces. J. Bacteriol. 88:477-490. 1964.-Four unusual isolates of Actinomyces species were compared with six control strains of well-identified Actinomyces

Experimental pneumonia was produced with a highly virulent strain of type III pneumococcus which synthesizes, during rapid growth, large amounts of capsular polysaccharide. The type III pneumonia differed from that caused by pneumococcus I in that (a) death occurred more promptly in the type III