Researchers at the University of Notre Dame identified the mechanism by which Streptococcus pyogenes, also known as Group A Streptococcus (GAS), destroys red blood cells. GAS infects nearly 700 ...

Streptococcus pyogenes upregulates arginine catabolism to exert its pathogenesis on the skin surface. Cell Reports , 2021; 34 (13): 108924 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108924 Cite This Page : ...

A team led by Osaka University has discovered that Streptococcus pyogenes, a species of bacteria that can cause severe illness if it invades the human body, can survive on the skin using arginine ...

Hirose, Y., et al. (2021) Streptococcus pyogenes upregulates arginine catabolism to exert its pathogenesis on the skin surface.Cell Reports. doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep ...

Streptolysin S (SLS) is a potent cytolytic toxin and virulence factor that is produced by nearly all Streptococcus pyogenes strains. Despite a 100-year history of research on this toxin, it has ...

On artificial cultivation these strains sooner or later assume the characteristics of streptococcus pyogenes. Cultures on blood agar plates from ordinary milk usually give rise to colonies of ...