Researchers have discovered that Streptococcus pyogenes, a species of bacteria that can cause severe illness if it invades the human body, can survive on the skin using arginine as a source of ...

Osaka, Japan - Streptococcus pyogenes is one of the most important bacterial causes of human skin infections. If S. pyogenes invades deep into the tissue, it can cause life-threatening illnesses, such ...

Osaka, Japan - A group of researchers led by The University of Osaka have identified a novel genetic mutation in Streptococcus pyogenes, a common bacterium which causes strep throat, significantly ...

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 ...

An under-recognized strep bacterium is causing a growing number of serious infections in Australia, with First Nations Australians disproportionately affected, according to new research published in ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers examined the dynamic interplay between human stimulator of interferon genes (STING) genotype and bacterial nicotinamide adenine ...

Beginning in the mid-1980s, an epidemic of severe invasive infections caused by Streptococcus pyogenes (S. pyogenes), also known as group A streptococcus (GAS), occurred in the United States, Europe, ...

Scarlet fever epidemics were deadly to children across the globe in the 1800s, but in recent decades concerns about the disease have largely faded from the minds of medical experts, in part due to the ...

Mupirocin is a generic prescription medication. It comes as a topical cream and ointment. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved these different forms to treat certain bacterial skin ...

It sounds like science fiction — and until 2012, the ability to cheaply and easily edit strings of DNA was exactly that. But as it turns out, CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing is a completely natural function ...