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Discuss the classifications of streptococcus based on the hemolytic pattern and give an example for each pattern.
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- Name two underlying conditions that predispose a person to Streptococcus pyogenes flesh-eating disease.Name the most important human pathogens in the genusStreptococcus.Background of Group C streptococcus in Infective Endocarditis (such as mortality rate, how people get it versus other pathogen, how to treat it). (please cite the references)