The study was conducted in six urban and six rural governmental elementary schools from April to June 2022 in Gondar City. The city is located in the Central Gondar Zone of the Amhara Regional State, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Strep throat, something we've all had at some point in our lives, is caused by the bacteria Streptococcus pyogenes. Infection by Streptococcus can be fatal in serious cases and is the leading cause of ...

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 ...

Over 1,000 cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) were reported in Japan in the first six months of 2024. The disease is predominantly caused by a bacterium named Streptococcus pyogenes ...

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, ...

In addition to protein- and peptide-based candidates, carbohydrate-based GAS vaccine candidates have been under development for the past decade (reviewed in ref. 23). This approach has been encouraged ...

A 700-year-old mummy from the Bolivian Andes is quietly reshaping what scientists thought they knew about ancient diseases. Inside a single preserved tooth, researchers discovered genetic traces of ...