erysipelas
- n an acute streptococcal infection characterized by deep-red inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes
- Though doctors can cure a growing list of bacterial diseasespneumonia, meningitis, streptococcic infections, erysipelas, childbed fever, gonorrhea, etc.
- Prodigiosus toxin fortifies the action of erysipelas toxin.
- In the American Medical Association Journal they pointed out that Streptococcus haemolyticus belongs to the family of germs which cause scarlet fever and erysipelas.