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

Researchers identified the pathogen’s genetic material while examining a tooth from a naturally mummified skull housed at MUNARQ – the National Museum of Archaeology in La Paz. Using a method that ...

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

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

Protara Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TARA), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing transformative therapies for the ...

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

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

The researchers stumbled upon the pathogen by accident, but decided to dig into its genome due to its recent resurgence.

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.

Postinfectious glomerulonephritis is an immunologic response of the kidney to infection, commonly triggered by streptococci, although many other organisms can cause the condition. In recent decades, ...