WellSpan Pediatric Medicine Physicians are seeing strep throat this week. “We are seeing many cases of strep throat,” said Dr ...

Strep throat is a bacterial infection that can cause sudden, severe sore throat and fever, especially in school-age children.

Providers at UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics are seeing viral upper respiratory infections this week. WellSpan Pediatric ...

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Strep infections are most well known for causing strep throat, which can be treated with antibiotics. But this type of bacteria can also cause more serious illnesses—even flesh-eating infections.

In a medical advance that may revolutionize the battle against one of the globe's most deadly bacterial infections, researchers have pinpointed individual antibodies that protect children naturally ...

Severe, possibly life-threatening strep infections are rising in the United States. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The number of ...

Growing research suggests the bacteria left behind by the common childhood infection may trick the immune system into attacking both the invader and the body's own cells. Colored scanning electron ...

Group A streptococci pyogenes. It is the cause of skin infections (impetigo), abscesses, bronchopulmonary infections, a form of sore throat which can develop into complications such as acute rheumatic ...