Streptococcal infections are common, especially in children between the ages of 5 and 15 years. The infection is spread by contact with infected mucus or saliva. Your doctor may recommend a rapid ...

In new guidance, the Infectious Diseases Society of America suggested that clinicians use a scoring system to determine which ...

To earn CME related to this news article, click here. March 10, 2009 — Best practices to diagnose and treat streptococcal pharyngitis in the primary care setting are reviewed in an article published ...

If you’ve had a sore throat from time to time or blisters around your mouth or nose, chances are you’ve had a group A streptococcal (GAS) infection. Group A streptococcus is the bacteria that causes ...

Poststreptococcal disorder is a group of autoimmune disorders that occur after an infection with the bacteria Streptococcus pyogenes, also known as group A Streptococcus (GAS). An autoimmune disorder ...

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A streptococcal infection may lead to other diseases, such as acute rheumatic fever, pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders, and post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis. Group A beta-hemolytic ...

Some of these create relatively mild, treatable conditions, such as strep throat. Others can lead to life-threatening infections of your blood or organs. Anyone can be affected, from babies and small ...

THE importance of Staphylococcus aureus as the etiologic agent in pneumonia complicated by empyema has been emphasized in many recent reviews. 1,2 The problem of pneumonia and empyema secondary to ...

A new vaccine has the potential to treat and prevent toxic shock caused by invasive streptococcal disease, which kills more than 160,000 people every year. When ISD occurs, some strains can make more ...

Medical charts and dental records were reviewed of 61 consecutive patients with hematological malignancies receiving myeloablative allogeneic HSCT at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in ...