Port Security in a Competitive Environment Increasingly in our security conscious world, ports considered insecure may be at a competitivedisadvantage to those demonstrating the ability to prevent imports of threatening cargos. Thus,Canadian ports ignore enhanced security at their peril.
Strep is short for Streptococcus, a type of bacteria. There are two types: group A and group B. Group A strep causes. 1  Strep throat - a sore, red throat, sometimes with white spots on the tonsils.  Scarlet fever - an illness that follows strep throat. It causes a red rash on the body.
The most. significant pathogens are Streptococcus pyogenes (Lancefield Group A), Streptococcus. agalactiae (Lancefield Group B) a nd Streptococcus pneumoniae. Some streptococci (fo rmerly. group D) n ow placed in the genus Enterococcus are of medical significance because they are.