Cases of invasive group A strep infections, which can cause severe illness and be deadly, remain elevated in some parts of the country, officials warned Wednesday. In a statement to ABC News, the ...

Streptococcus is a well established bacterial genus, but its sub-division into species has always been controversial. Wilson and Miles 1 expressed their dissatisfaction with existing classification ...

A potential rise in invasive group A strep (streptococcus) infections, which has caused the death of 16 children under age 18 in the United Kingdom, now has U.S. health experts concerned. In the ...

Strep throat is a bacterial infection that usually causes a sore throat. People often also associate the infection with a fever, but it is possible for a person to have strep throat and not have a ...

Streptococci and other bacteria that tend to be reside in the mouth are, when found in gut flora, associated with coronary atherosclerosis and markers of systemic inflammation, according to a study of ...

The various culture-based and culture-independent studies that have correlated levels of species or taxa with caries typically report those levels as means or medians. But these data may be ...

Researchers have discovered an enzyme they believe could be key to preventing Group A Streptococcus infections that cause more than 500,000 deaths worldwide each year. The enzyme works through a novel ...

One person infected with strep bacteria might get a painful sore throat; another might face a life-threatening blood infection. Now, scientists are trying to pin down why. Variation between ...

THE occurrence of streptococci of groups other than A is rare in upper respiratory infections such as scarlet fever, tonsillitis and septic sore throat. These streptococci, however, are frequently ...

Experiments with germ-free rats demonstrated that caries will not form in the absence of a plaque microflora. [9] But the presence of a plaque biofilm and its composition are far from the only ...