The research highlights how disrupting bacterial metabolism can help the body ... approach to mitigating tissue damage caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, the flesh-eating bacterium responsible ...

More information: Wei Xu et al, Reprogramming aerobic metabolism mitigates Streptococcus pyogenes tissue damage in a mouse ...

Researchers have discovered that Streptococcus pyogenes ... blocking arginine metabolism in S. pyogenes should curb its survival and virulence. Now, an international team led by Osaka University ...

Strep throat is a bacterial infection that occurs due to a bacteria called Streptococcus pyogenes (S. pyogenes). S. pyogenes belongs to a group of bacteria that grow in chains of spherical cells ...

if we can block arginine metabolism in S. pyogenes it should restrict the pathogen's survival and virulence." More information: Yujiro Hirose et al. Streptococcus pyogenes upregulates arginine ...

Osaka, Japan - Streptococcus pyogenes is one of the ... if we can block arginine metabolism in S. pyogenes it should restrict the pathogen's survival and virulence." ...