History of Streptococcus Pyogenes :: Biomedical

History of Streptococcus PyogenesAbstractWith the earliest recordings approaching from the Fifth Century B.C., streptococcus pyogenes, and more frequently, its symptoms have been prevalent among doctors and historians for hundreds of years. The foremost mentioning of streptococcus pyogenes is to be credited to Hippocrates, in which he describes the relative symptoms of the carnivorous bacteria in its early stages. Then depicted by Billroth in 1874, patients carrying erysipelas were determined to have this certain bacterial infection. In 1883, the chain-forming bacteria were free by Fehleisen and in the following year, Rosenbach applied the S. pyogenes name. Further advances in haemolytic and non-hemolytic studies were made by Lancefield in the 1930s, in which the alpha, beta, and gamma subgroups of the hemolytic structures detail and defined by Schottmueller and Brown - were divided into serotypes.Although he lived four centuries in advance the birth of Christ, a man named Hi ppocrates preserve the symptoms of diseases we still see to this day. cognise as the Father of Medicine (Hippocrates), Hippocrates was an ancient physician who studied and recorded his observances of the bodys infections and physiology. He set forth the foundation for succeeding(a) physicians, and in doing so, is accredited for our knowledge of infectious diseases in earlier centuries. During this time however, m each believed the earth and its inhabitants were composed of four general elements air, water, fire, and dirt. They also believed that any one person who fell ill was being punished by the gods. As a foresighted thinker though, Hippocrates encouraged the idea that mankind became ill due to natural causes. In that wisdom, he recorded all in all his observances of his patients and their illnesses, taking careful note of the bodily symptoms and their progression.Described in his works, Hippocrates mentioned cerise fever-like symptoms, 2those that correlate to the flesh- eating bacteria now known as streptococcus pyogenes. Due to Hippocrates acts as a pioneer in the medical examination field, these chronicles are the first recordings we have of the existence of the bacteria.Centuries later, another man began to schema more thoroughly the features and symptoms of several afflictions. Theodor Billroth, a Viennese surgeon expound streptococci, staphylococci, diplococci, and even rods found in pus as intervals regarded in a distinct species Coccobacteria septica (Breed). He investigated the roles of the bacteria and entwined their origin. Billroth noticed specific bacteria in those with erysipelas he named the bacteria streptococcus from the two Greek words strepto mean a chain formed of links, and coccus meaning berry.