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 ...

Adult bacterial meningitis carries high mortality and neurological complications, especially from Listeria and Streptococcus ...

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 ...

HOUSTON-(Feb. 18, 2019) - Houston Methodist infectious disease scientists have discovered a previously unknown trigger that turns a relatively run-of-the-mill infection into a devastatingly ravenous, ...

Coordinating the sort of full-spectrum analysis more commonly deployed in cancer research, scientists based at Houston Methodist examined flesh-eating strains of Streptococcus pyogenes both ...

Scarlet fever has revealed unusual high infect rate in Hong Kong this year. So far, 466 children were infected and 2 of them dead. Scarlet fever is caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, a gram-positive ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers report that the heterogeneity of Group A streptococcal infections and the transition of local to systemic infections ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers determined the cryogenic-electron microscopic (cryo-EM) structures of secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA)-M4 and sigA-CD89 complexes ...