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We've all had a painful sore throat , which can be caused by any number of viruses. But a sore throat can also mean a strep throat infection. Dr. Richard Besser explains how to diagnose and treat strep throat. Everyone who has strep throat has a sore ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Investigators at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute in Houston examined for the first time the long-term response to strep throat on a genome-wide level, shedding light on how group A streptococcus interacts with the patient ...

Can a bout of strep throat lead to serious behavioral problems like obsessive hand washing or odd tics in children? The condition, known as Pandas, for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infection, remains a ...

Scarlet fever, once more commonly known as scarlatina, is a disease caused by the same bacterium that causes strep throat – group A Streptococcus or “group A strep”. It is highly contagious, transmitted through contact with droplets from a ...