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Revision as of 20:51, 27 January 2022
- Previously known as nutritionally-variant streptococci
- Gram-positive coccus
- Grows on chocolate but not blood agar
- Often a skin contaminant, but can cause line infections, device infections, and endocarditis
- Usually susceptible to penicillin
