The tooth of a Bolivian mummy. (Eurac Research/Guido Valverde) Scarlet fever was probably not introduced to the Americas by ...

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

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

Researchers identified the pathogen’s genetic material while examining a tooth from a naturally mummified skull housed at ...

Researchers have identified Streptococcus pyogenes, the bacterium behind strep throat and scarlet fever, in a 700-year-old mummy from Bolivia, marking the earliest confirmed presence of the pathogen ...

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 ...

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.

The inquest into the death of a 24-year-old woman who died of sepsis in a St. Catharines, Ont., hospital in 2021 has heard ...

On the day she died of sepsis, Heather Winterstein shouldn't have been placed in the emergency room waiting area at the St. Catharines hospital until she could see a doctor, an emergency medicine ...

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