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Streptococcus bovis bacteraemia: its significance for the colorectal surgeon
D A Grieve1, S C Chen, P H Chapuis
1Department of Surgery, University of Sydney, Concord Hospital, New South Wales, Australia.
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
|July 1, 1990
Abstract:
Patients with Streptococcus bovis bacteraemia are at high risk of harbouring an asymptomatic colorectal cancer or adenomatous polyps. It is therefore important to differentiate to a species level any Group D streptococci grown in blood cultures. Colonoscopy is the preferred method of screening these patients and high dose penicillin is the antibiotic of choice.