Five children have died of invasive Strep A so far this year in Illinois. Cases of invasive group A strep infections, which can cause severe illness and be deadly, remain elevated in some parts of ...

One such bacteria is Streptococcus Group A, an old enemy that colonizes the throat and tonsils of close to 20% of U.S. children, according to Dr. Joshua Osowicki, team leader and senior research ...

Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a bacteria about 25% of pregnant women carry. It's rare for babies to get GBS disease from their mothers during labor, but it can be very harmful. So healthcare ...

Severe, possibly life-threatening strep infections are rising in the United States. The number of invasive group A strep infections more than doubled from 2013 to 2022, according to a study from ...

In a report published April 7 in JAMA, researchers led by those at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that cases of invasive group A Streptococcus have been steadily ...

The surveillance study, which was published in JAMA, showed that the incidence of group A Streptococcus (GAS) infection "substantially increased" from 2013 to 2022. Infection rates were higher ...

Invasive group A strep infections increased from 3.6 per 100,000 people in 2013 to 8.2 per 100,000 people in 2022. The relative increase over this time was greatest among adults ages 18 to 64 years.

Strep throat is one of the infections caused by group A Streptococcus, group A strep, disease. It can be treated with antibiotics. Other infections from group A strep include mild ones like ...

Investigators in Canada have discovered that molecular changes to an infectious bacterium (Group A Streptococcus pyogenes [GAS]) underlie a post-pandemic surge of coinfections with a respiratory ...