| incidence and pathogenicity of arcanobacterium haemolyticum during a 2-year study in ottawa. | arcanobacterium haemolyticum has been described as a rare cause of systemic invasive disease and is occasionally isolated from throat swabs. we describe a 2-year study of the incidence and clinical features of a. haemolyticus infection in a pediatric and adolescent population. a total of 11,620 throat swabs were examined for a. haemolyticum with use of a locally developed selective medium. controls (2,241) were healthy students who were recruited from a separate study. a. haemolyticum was isolat ... | 1995 | 7578727 |