Streptococcal Pharyngitis News Today

A new lollipop-based saliva collection system uses candy treats to capture and detect bacteria.

Severe infections caused by group A streptococcus bacteria are on the rise in countries around the world, including the United States.

Reported cases of pediatric brain abscesses rose in Nevada and elsewhere last year.

The FDA said that the increased demand for the drug is due to rises in strep throat and syphilis.

You or your kids may already been familiar with strep throat; I know I had to suffer through lots of throat swabs and pink liquid medicine as a kid. But the med

Group A strep is one of the childhood illnesses that responds to antibiotics, but there's a shortage.

The pandemic-era slowdown on strep infections has ended, but there hasn't been enough medicine to go around.

The number of invasive strep A illnesses in children in this country is back to where it was before the pandemic, higher in some places.

Several children without identified risk factors have been hospitalized after contracting an invasive group A strep infection.

These infections are rare but can be deadly, and they can affect adults as well as children.