DENVER (KDVR) — Doctors at Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver are seeing an unexplained uptick in the number of obstetrics patients with strep A sepsis, a life-threatening condition that ...

These days, COVID-19, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are the illnesses on the tip of everyone’s tongue. But data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that strep ...

Sore throat? Get a strep test to prevent serious complications Strep throat is a very contagious and potentially serious illness that is often dismissed as nothing more than a sore throat. But letting ...

Babies can get strep throat from time to time. If the illness is recurring, there may be an underlying health issue. Babies with strep throat may experience cold-like symptoms, irritability, fever, ...

An antistreptolysin O titer (ASO) is a blood test used to determine if you've had a recent infection caused by group A streptococcus bacteria. It's not used to diagnose a current strep infection, such ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this bimonthly column, pediatric infectious disease specialists Asif Noor, MD, FAAP, and Ulka Kothari, MD, ...

Gainesville, Fla. -- The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a new test studied at the University of Florida that could lead to better screening for the most common cause of infection in ...

Strep throat is usually accompanied by a fever and white patches on your tonsils. But the only way to be sure it’s strep throat is to have a strep test done. Share on Pinterest To go or not to go to ...

As children from all over Middle Tennessee begin to settle back into a school routine this time of year, parents all over Middle Tennessee begin to worry about their children catching something and ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are about 20,000 to 27,000 cases of invasive group A strep each year in the United States, which results in about 1,800 to ...

Tonsillitis and strep throat are similar illnesses that affect the inside of the throat and surrounding tissue. Differences include how they affect the tonsils and surrounding areas. Because ...

New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham suggests that Fusobacterium necrophorum more often causes severe sore throats in young adults than streptococcus — the cause of the much ...