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Which microorganism caused this? - (Apr/12/2014 )

A woman who gave birth to a baby a week earlier was frantically brought to a hospital with septicemia and a very high fever? 

 

We had to do an elaborate set up of tests to find the unknown and I think it's either 
1) streptococcus pneumoniae 
2) streptococcus pyogens 

Other options are seem to be: 
-Streptococcus bovis 
-Enterococcus faecalis 
-Staphylococcus aureus 
-Staphylococcus epidermis 
-Staphylococcus saprophyticus 
-Micrococcus luteus 
-Micrococcus varians

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E.coli, Staph. aureus, Streptococcus penumonia, MRSA, clostridium septicum, Morganella morganii are few commonly found in puerperium (Post- natal).

see here 

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Agent of classic puerperal (childbed) fever is Streptococcus pyogenes.  This was the condition that Semmelweis famously mitigated by having obstetric folks rinse their hands in choride of lime (calcium hypochlorite).

-Phil Geis-