Streptococcal septicemia

Bleb-related endophthalmitis is caused by streptococcal infection approximately half of the time and Hemophilus influenza is seen more commonly than after postcataract infections (14,15). The cause of endogenous endophthalmitis depends on the population studied. Staphylococcus and Streptococcus are frequent bacterial causes. Candida septicemia is frequently found in hospitalized patients. 

What is true of puerperal fever applies to acute streptococcal sepsis of other kinds. This most dangerous infection of all kinds of wound, from those sustained in battle to the trivial pricks and scratches which could once lead to septicemia, has lost its terrors.. ... 

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