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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Group A Streptococcus (GAS), the bacterial species famous for sore throat infections, have a secret weapon for circumventing the immune response to bacterial invasion. Characterized for the first time ...