Strep throat, something we've all had at some point in our lives, is caused by the bacteria Streptococcus pyogenes. Infection by Streptococcus can be fatal in serious cases and is the leading cause of ...

The ability of pathogenic bacteria to recognize host glycans is often essential to their virulence. Here we report structure-function studies of previously uncharacterized glycogen-binding modules in ...

The operon that is responsible for the production, processing and export of streptolysin S (SLS), the post-translationally modified cytolytic toxin that causes the β-haemolytic phenotype of group A ...