Streptococcus pyogenes, or Group A Streptococcus (GAS), is a formidable pathogen responsible for over 517,000 deaths per year ...

We are in the early stages of the fall and winter respiratory virus season which brings up the important subject of pneumococcal vaccination. Pneumococcal vaccines, often called “pneumonia” vaccines, ...

Children under five years of age, especially those aged two years or under, face a high risk of pneumococcal disease, which ...

A horse in Barn 4 at the Ohio racetrack tested positive for strangles; the approximately 75 horses stabled in that barn are ...

Pneumonia — an infection of one or both of your lungs — can leave you coughing, feverish and feeling miserable. And sometimes, it can land you in the hospital struggling to breathe.

Scientists have identified many types of bacteria in the mouth, but many problems remain in understanding how they work with ...

Blood cultures drawn in the ER were positive for Streptococcus mitis/oralis. A transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) showed a thickened mitral valve with a thick shaggy vegetation on the atrial side of ...

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 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 ...

Closely related to group A streptococcus (also commonly known as Streptococcus pyogenes), which has been very well studied, little is known about SDSE. "Given its great emerging importance to ...