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 ...

The tooth of a Bolivian mummy. (Eurac Research/Guido Valverde) Scarlet fever was probably not introduced to the Americas by ...

A DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed that the bacterium that causes scarlet fever and strep throat ...

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 ...

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 ...

Generation of Microgram Quantities of sgRNA in Less Than One Hour CRISPR is an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats, which are genomic loci found in many bacteria and ...

Streptococcus pyogenes, which is often called group A Streptococcus, infects people around the world. While estimates vary, these infections could be responsible for the deaths of over half a million ...

Researchers have identified Streptococcus pyogenes, the bacterium behind strep throat and scarlet fever, in a 700-year-old mummy from Bolivia, marking the earliest confirmed presence of the pathogen ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis developed a novel compound that effectively clears Gram-positive bacterial infections in mice, in particular skin and soft tissue ...