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

Certain civilian studies deal with selected or closed populations and therefore do not adequately describe the risk of streptococcal pharyngitis in an open population. In this connection ...

Strep throat (medically known as streptococcal pharyngitis) is an infection that happens when bacteria called Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus) infect your throat and tonsils.

Strep throat, something we've all had at some point in our lives, is caused by the bacteria Streptococcus pyogenes. Infection ...

Penicillin is the most commonly recommended therapy for group A streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis. Although group A streptococcus has not developed resistance, antibiotic therapy fails to eradicate ...

MANY studies have described the incidence of streptococcal pharyngitis in military personnel,1 , 2 and more recently attention has been focused on the occurrence of this disease in nonmilitary popu ...