This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

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 ...

Beta-hemolytic group A streptococcus or Streptococcus pyogenes, a gram-positive human pathogen that habitually colonizes the throat or skin of the host, is a cause of streptococcal pharyngitis – more ...

Investigators in Canada have discovered that molecular changes to an infectious bacterium (Group A Streptococcus pyogenes [GAS]) underlie a post-pandemic surge of coinfections with a respiratory ...

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 ...

Strep A is a bacterium known as group A streptococcus, or Streptococcus pyogenes, that is common worldwide. Many people carry the bacteria in their mouth and throat without experiencing any symptoms, ...

Although a painful sore throat could indicate strep throat, you may actually have another condition, like the flu or tonsillitis. Strep throat is an infection caused by the group A Streptococcus ...

Strep throat is one of a several conditions, among them pneumonia, scarlet fever, impetigo, and flesh-eating necrotizing fasciitis, caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes, better known as ...