Certain civilian studies deal with selected or closed populations and therefore do not adequately describe the risk of streptococcal pharyngitis in an open population. In this connection, however ...

Penicillin is the most commonly recommended therapy for group A streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis. Although group A streptococcus has not developed resistance, antibiotic therapy fails to eradicate ...

Strep throat (medically known as streptococcal pharyngitis) is an infection that happens when bacteria called Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus) infect your throat and tonsils.

Group A causes pharyngitis (strep throat), an epidemic that spreads mainly among children every winter and from spring to early summer. Severe cases are rare and it is a well-known pathogen.

Children who are more susceptible to strep throat infection benefit by undergoing ... or more diagnoses of strep-related tonsillitis or pharyngitis at least one month apart, within 12 months.

STSS is a rare, severe form of infection caused by the bacterium streptococcus pyogenes, which usually causes acute pharyngitis, or strep throat, in childhood. Cases tend to surge in April and ...