Group A Streptococcus

A 7-year-old girl in the United States has had several limbs amputated over the last two weeks after contracting a rare bacterial disease.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday called for the urgent development of a vaccine against a bacterial infection responsible for nearly 150,000 stillbirths and infant deaths each year.

A type of sugar found in some women's breast milk may protect babies from a potentially life threatening bacterium, a new study has found.

The Streptococcus (bacteria) which causes acute infections of the throat, upper respiratory tract and other organs appears to be gaining resistance to a widely used class of antibiotics. This class of antibiotics called macrolides includes among others erythromycin and clarithromycin and is used in the treatment of group A streptococci infections....

A 7-year-old girl in the United States has had several limbs amputated over the last two weeks after contracting a rare bacterial disease.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday called for the urgent development of a vaccine against a bacterial infection responsible for nearly 150,000 stillbirths and infant deaths each year.

A type of sugar found in some women's breast milk may protect babies from a potentially life threatening bacterium, a new study has found.

The Streptococcus (bacteria) which causes acute infections of the throat, upper respiratory tract and other organs appears to be gaining resistance to a widely used class of antibiotics. This class of antibiotics called macrolides includes among others erythromycin and clarithromycin and is used in the treatment of group A streptococci infections....