Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Streptococcus pyogenes, or scarlet fever, infection Streptococcus pyogenes, or scarlet fever, infection A man was recently ...

A rare, deadly, flesh-eating bacteria is on the rise in Japan, with hundreds of people infected. Over 1,000 cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) were reported in Japan in the first six ...

Streptococcus pyogenes, which is often called group A Streptococcus, infects people around the world. While estimates vary, these infections could be responsible for the deaths of over half a million ...

A recent study published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal explores the emerging invasive group A Streptococcus M1 uk lineage and highlights the importance of its detection. Study: Emerging ...

It sounds like science fiction — and until 2012, the ability to cheaply and easily edit strings of DNA was exactly that. But as it turns out, CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing is a completely natural function ...

Efforts to develop new vaccines have huge — and costly — rates of failure. A lab at OxfordUniversity in the U.K. has engineered and combined two proteins from Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria into an ...

Streptococcus pyogenes is a pus-producing bacteria behind over 700 million infections per year. They also cause the infection most commonly known as strep throat. But are antibiotics the best way to ...

Reviews of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 9, Supplement 5. Perspectives on Bacterial Pathogenesis and Host Defense (Sep. - Oct., 1987), pp. S475-S481 (7 pages) It is now recognized that bacteria bind to ...

Breakthrough research has found that Group A Streptococcus (GAS) infections are more likely transmitted from asymptomatic throat carriage than skin-to-skin contact in communities with high rates of ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers report that the heterogeneity of Group A streptococcal infections and the transition of local to systemic infections ...