Global Streptococcus pyogenes strain diversity, disease associations, and implications for vaccine development: a systematic review

PR Smeesters, G de Crombrugghe, SK Tsoi… - The Lancet …, 2024 - thelancet.com
The high strain diversity of Streptococcus pyogenes serves as a major obstacle to vaccine
development against this leading global pathogen. We did a systematic review of studies in …

Streptococcus pyogenes: Pathogenesis and the Current Status of Vaccines

J Wang, C Ma, M Li, X Gao, H Wu, W Dong, L Wei - Vaccines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus; GAS), a Gram-positive coccal bacterium,
poses a significant global disease burden, especially in low-and middle-income countries …

Rapid expansion and international spread of M1UK in the post-pandemic UK upsurge of Streptococcus pyogenes

A Vieira, Y Wan, Y Ryan, HK Li, RL Guy… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The UK observed a marked increase in scarlet fever and invasive group A streptococcal
infection in 2022 with severe outcomes in children and similar trends worldwide. Here we …

Dihydrothiazolo ring-fused 2-pyridone antimicrobial compounds treat Streptococcus pyogenes skin and soft tissue infection

Z Zou, P Singh, JS Pinkner, CLP Obernuefemann… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
We have developed GmPcides from a peptidomimetic dihydrothiazolo ring-fused 2-pyridone
scaffold that has antimicrobial activities against a broad spectrum of Gram-positive …

SIgA structures bound to Streptococcus pyogenes M4 and human CD89 provide insights into host-pathogen interactions

Q Liu, BM Stadtmueller - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Immunoglobulin (Ig) A functions as monomeric IgA in the serum and Secretory (S) IgA in
mucosal secretions. Host IgA Fc receptors (FcαRs), including human FcαR1/CD89, mediate …

The germ theory revisited: A noncentric view on infection outcome

F Carlsson, L Råberg - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The germ theory states that pathogenic microorganisms are responsible for causing
infectious diseases. The theory is inherently microbe-centric and does not account for …

Acute pharyngitis in children and adults: descriptive comparison of current recommendations from national and international guidelines and future perspectives

R Pellegrino, E Timitilli, MC Verga, A Guarino… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
This study aims to provide a comparison of the current recommendations about the
management of acute pharyngitis. A literature search was conducted from January 2009 to …

Interplay between group A Streptococcus and host innate immune responses

MSW Su, YL Cheng, YS Lin, JJ Wu - Microbiology and Molecular …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY Group A Streptococcus (GAS), also known as Streptococcus pyogenes, is a
clinically well-adapted human pathogen that harbors rich virulence determinants …

An efficient in vivo-inducible CRISPR interference system for group A Streptococcus genetic analysis and pathogenesis studies

E Bjånes, A Stream, AB Janssen, PS Gibson, AM Bravo… - MBio, 2024 - journals.asm.org
While genome-wide transposon mutagenesis screens have identified numerous essential
genes in the significant human pathogen Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus …

Insights gained from sequencing Australian non-invasive and invasive Streptococcus pyogenes isolates

TAJ Butler, C Story, E Green… - Microbial …, 2024 - microbiologyresearch.org
Epidemiological data have indicated that invasive infections caused by the Gram-positive
cocci Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus, GAS) have increased in many …