December is the start of the "high" season for strep throat, according to the CDC. Here's what to know about symptoms and ...

Cases of pneumococcal diseases - a spectrum of bacterial infections young children are at risk of contracting - have surged ...

Cases of invasive neonatal GAS reported in the English language literature since 1966 were identified by a search of MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine) for the terms: group A streptococcus or ...

Rates of invasive pneumococcal disease are at their highest levels since 2004. While more effective vaccines have been ...

Infections tend to be most common among older children and adolescents but in 2024 have been rampant among young children, ...

Pneumococcal disease, caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae, is a serious health concern, responsible for ...

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) haseuthanized 13 bear cubs due to illness, according to a release from ...

In the patients to be described, however, it was present either in pure culture or as the predominant organism, and was considered to be related to disease. Group B streptococcus was isolated from ...

continues to inflict a substantial burden of disease, primarily due to Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes that are not included in currently available conjugate vaccines. Next-generation PCVs have the ...

There are concerns the disease will spread further in Japan ... STSS is mainly caused by a bacterium called streptococcus pyogenes, better known as group A streptococcus, which is known to bring ...

We present a fatal case of neonatal invasive group A streptococcal disease and review of the literature. Twenty-four cases were early onset disease and were associated with concurrent maternal ...