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Researchers have identified Streptococcus pyogenes, the bacterium behind strep throat and scarlet fever, in a 700-year-old Bolivian mummy, marking its earliest confirmed presence in the Americas.

It had been previously thought that the bacterium arrived in South America with Europeans, News.Az reports, citing ...

Before the invention of modern antibiotics, the disease was a leading cause of childhood death and disability, sometimes ...

A DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed that the bacterium that causes scarlet fever and strep throat ...

Learn how the bacterium for scarlet fever was found in a pre-Colombian mummy from Bolivia, challenging the history of the ...

Researchers have identified the genetic material of scarlet fever while examining a tooth from a naturally mummified skull ...

Purpura fulminans (PF) is a rare, life-threatening emergency characterized by rapidly progressive purpura evolving into hemorrhagic bullae and skin necrosis due to dermal microvascular thrombosis, ...

NEW guideline recommendations highlight how GAS pharyngitis clinical scoring can refine testing decisions in everyday practice. This first part of the updated clinical practice guideline on diagnosis ...

Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a life-threatening complication of infection typically caused by one of two bacterial species: Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes. The outcomes in children ...