A concerning increase in global rates of severe invasive infections becoming resistant to key antibiotics has a team of infectious disease researchers at the Houston Methodist Research Institute ...

Eraso, Ph.D., assistant research professor of pathology & genomic medicine and lead author on the study Closely related to group A streptococcus (also commonly known as Streptococcus pyogenes), which ...

A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) finds that vaccines against 24 pathogens could reduce the number of antibiotics needed by 22% or 2.5 billion defined daily doses globally every ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Meet Streptococcus mutans. He's a bacterium and…a bit of a slob. But this isn't just any mess. It's what's on your teeth! You see, "Strep" and ...

The pneumonia shot is a vaccine that helps protect you against pneumococcal disease, or diseases caused by bacteria known as Streptococcus pneumoniae. The vaccine can help protect you from ...

There has been a massive surge in cases of a life-threatening form of bacterial infection in Japan that has left officials investigating the cause of the increase. The nation's National Institute of ...

STSS is mainly caused by a bacterium called streptococcus pyogenes, better known as group A streptococcus, which is known to bring on strep throat mainly among children. In some cases, an ...