Most group A strep infections cause mild illnesses like strep throat — but when that bacteria spreads to the blood and deep ...

An aggressive and potentially deadly form of strep infections is quietly spreading — and it’s striking hardest among the most ...

Substantially elevated GAS incidence rates seen in people experiencing homelessness, people who inject drugs, long-term care facility residents ...

Substantially elevated GAS incidence rates seen in people experiencing homelessness, people who inject drugs, long-term care facility residents.

Severe strep infections are on the rise in the U.S. A new study shows a sharp increase in cases of invasive group A strep, ...

Invasive group A strep infections in the US have more than doubled in a decade with rising antibiotic resistance and deadly complications prompting urgent calls for vaccine development ...

"The changing emm type distribution contributed to an almost 3-fold rise in macrolide and clindamycin resistance ... particularly American Indian and Alaska Native individuals," they wrote.

A surveillance study of 10 US states shows the incidence of invasive group A Streptococcus (GAS) infection more than doubled ...