Dr. Janine Zee-Cheng, a board-certified pediatrician in Indiana, told HuffPost that sometimes a child will come in with a ...

Rapidly spreading, harrowing and potentially lethal, a necrotizing soft tissue infection — so-called flesh-eating disease — ...

Eleven Saskatchewan pharmacies have been selected to offer step throat and ear infection assessments through a pilot project with the provincial government. Another 37 were chosen to offer only the ...

Strep A can be treated with antibiotics Strep A is a very common bacteria that can be treated with antibiotics. Your child might also be given a throat swab to determine diagnosis ... only iGAS but ...

With many viruses now on the rise, it can be hard to know which illness you have and how to handle it. A doctor helps you to decide.

In lab experiments, a protein found in the Sydney rock oyster made some antibiotics more effective and killed several types ...

In the context of Streptococcus bacteria, glycosylation plays a vital role in the function of bacterial adhesins, particularly serine-rich repeat proteins (SRRPs). These proteins are essential for ...

Although group A streptococcus has not developed resistance, antibiotic therapy fails to eradicate the infection in some patients. Many authors have suggested using a cephalosporin as an ...

A new report has been released looking at the infection rate of Group A streptococcal, otherwise known as scarlet fever, this ...

was effective at killing Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus pyogenes, the bacteria responsible for pneumonia and strep throat, respectively. Normally, bacteria evades antibiotics and the ...

Two patients had apparent cure of the infection with retention of the prosthesis. Group B streptococcal prosthetic joint infections appear to be a late complication of prosthetic joint replacement ...