
Group A Streptococcal Diseases and Their Global Burden Anna P. Ralph and Jonathan R Carapetis Molecular Markers for the Study of Streptococcal Epidemiology David J McMillan, Martina L Sanderson-Smith, Pierre Smeesters and Kadaba S Sriprakash ...

Streptococci are Gram-positive bacteria that cause a wide spectrum of diseases, such as pharyngitis, necrotizing fasciitis and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, as well as rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease as sequelae. Antibiotics alone have not been able to control...