BETA-hemolytic streptococci of Lancefield Group B have been implicated in human disease almost from the time when the precipitin-grouping technic first came into use. 1–3 Since that time additional ...

Researcher have developed new insights into the burden, risk factors and mortality associated with severe S. pyogenes infection in Europe. Diseases caused by the Lancefield group A streptococcus, ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 133, No. 4 (Apr., 1976), pp. 382-392 (11 pages) The aim of a study of all groups L-T streptococci isolated at the Massachusetts General Hospital during a ...

When Rebecca Craighill Lancefield was a child around the turn of the century, scarlet fever seemed a dangerous disease that was easy enough to diagnose but difficult to treat. The victim got a raging ...

R.L., a 56-year-old obese diabetic woman with chronic pyelonephritis, had an intense headache on the morning of May 12, 1964, and was admitted to Henry Grady Memorial Hospital in a semistuporous state ...

Researchers have discovered an enzyme they believe could be key to preventing Group A Streptococcus infections that cause more than 500,000 deaths worldwide each year. The enzyme works through a novel ...

Stimulating the immune system to fight Group A Streptococcus (strep) is a delicate business. Strep is an inviting target, since it causes more than 700 million infections worldwide each year, leading ...

The pili of Gram-negative pathogens have important roles in virulence and protection, and their biology has been well characterized. Little is known, however, about the extended surface organelles of ...