A new study reveals a novel approach to mitigating tissue damage caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, the flesh-eating bacterium responsible for severe infections such as necrotizing fasciitis.

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals a novel approach to mitigating tissue damage caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, the flesh-eating bacterium responsible for severe infections ...

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A decade-long study of around 35 million Americans in 10 states has found that group A streptococcus infections have more ...

Later this year, researchers in the US will deploy a bioreactor filled with a specially bred strain of methane-eating bacteria at a landfill site in Washington. Receive a weekly dose of discovery ...

Known for spending much of its life underground, the little-known American burying beetle could hold the key to developing ...

A rare flesh-eating bug has claimed the life of one man ... Tragically, he succumbed within two weeks due to a multi-drug resistant bacteria. The second victim, a 47 year old man, also arrived ...

Three men have been struck down by a rare flesh-eating bug - with one of them dead ... two weeks after developing a multi-drug resistant bacteria. The second patient, aged 47, also presented ...

A record number of cases of a potentially fatal “flesh-eating disease” were reported ... enters the bloodstream and spinal fluid where bacteria cannot normally be detected.

Medical experts have observed a “substantial” increase in invasive group A strep cases, with rates more than doubling between ...

A rare flesh-eating eye bug has killed one man and left two others grievously sick. The bug outbreak in Germany started when a 65-year-old man was rushed to hospital after his left eyelid started ...