Staphylococcus is a genus and in this genus, there are many species of staphylococcus. There is staphylococcus aureus, staphylococcus pyogenes and staphylococcus epidermidis.

Mupirocin is used to treat infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus (staph) or Streptococcus pyogenes (strep) bacteria. For more information about these uses, see “ Mupirocin ointment uses ...

EXPERIMENTAL pyelonephritis in animals and clinical pyelonephritis in man have been under serious investigation at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center for the past decade. We have been publishing ...

The field of molecular biology was set ablaze several years ago with the discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing enzymes from Staphylococcus pyogenes. In the three-year stretch since the ...

The wonder drug of 1943 may prove to be penicillin, obscured since its discovery in Britain in 1929, only now getting its thorough sickroom trial. It is made from a mold (TIME, Sept. 15, 1941) by a ...

More than half of healthy New Zealand pre-school children are carriers of Staphylococcus aureus, and one in six hosts Streptococcus pyogenes in their nostrils, throat or crook of the arm ...

Beta-hemolytic group A streptococcus or Streptococcus pyogenes, a gram-positive human pathogen that habitually colonizes the throat or skin of the host, is a cause of streptococcal pharyngitis ...