The Centers for Disease Control said it has been monitoring a strain of strep throat known as Group A streptococcus in children. The strain was flagged by health officials in Colorado and Minnesota in ...

Strep throat is a common throat infection that often causes a sore throat, fever and trouble swallowing. It tends to come on ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is monitoring an increase in invasive group A Streptococcus infections in children. “Group A streptococcal disease is a group of conditions caused by a ...

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The role of host genetic factors in conferring predisposition or protection in infectious diseases has become evident. Infection with group A streptococci causes a wide spectrum of disease ranging ...

We identified 1726 cases of late-onset neonatal GBS disease between January 1990 and December 2005. Seventy-nine percent of isolates were obtained from blood, 19% from cerebrospinal fluid, 2% from ...

Rheumatic heart disease is a serious complication of Group A Streptococcus infection. It can cause damage to the valves in your heart and may cause severe heart problems in the future. Rheumatic heart ...

Streptococci is the name given to a very large family of bacteria. The most important group of these is the beta haemolytic streptococcus (streptococcus pyogenes) which causes most of the ...