A DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed that the bacterium that causes scarlet fever and strep throat ...

Researchers have identified the genetic material of scarlet fever while examining a tooth from a naturally mummified skull ...

Researchers identified the pathogen’s genetic material while examining a tooth from a naturally mummified skull housed at MUNARQ – the National Museum of Archaeology in La Paz. Using a method that ...

It had been previously thought that the bacterium arrived in South America with Europeans, News.Az reports, citing ...

Learn how the bacterium for scarlet fever was found in a pre-Colombian mummy from Bolivia, challenging the history of the ...

Protara Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TARA), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing transformative therapies for the ...

Before the invention of modern antibiotics, the disease was a leading cause of childhood death and disability, sometimes ...

The researchers stumbled upon the pathogen by accident, but decided to dig into its genome due to its recent resurgence.

Researchers have identified Streptococcus pyogenes, the bacterium behind strep throat and scarlet fever, in a 700-year-old Bolivian mummy, marking its earliest confirmed presence in the Americas.

A gut bacterium may be quietly fueling depression through an unexpected chemical twist. Researchers found that when ...