Bacteriology

Researchers unlock understanding to Streptococci infection

Published in Blood Weekly, January 6th, 2005

Researchers have unlocked new clues in understanding why group A streptococci (GAS) has a range of bacterial afflictions in humans.

One of the keys to this species of bacteria is its production of streptokinase (SK), an enzyme that activates plasminogen, the blood clot-dissolving protein in humans.

Findings of the research will be presented today at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH). Results of the study suggest that GAS, a group of bacterial organisms that cause a range of infectious diseases, from those as common as strep throat to the wildly virulent and often fatal "flesh-eating" bacterium, attacks soft...

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