Scarlet fever, or scarlatina, is a bacterial infection that causes a distinctive bright red sandpaper-like rash.

Southfield Public Schools said in a release Thursday that the cases were confirmed at Stevenson Elementary School.

The Dicks developed a scarlet fever antitoxin. Last week’s Germans, Professors Heinrich Finkelstein and Fritz Meyer of Berlin, claimed to have found the specific hemolytic streptococcus in the ...

WHEN Sydenham 1 coined the term "scarlet fever" in 1676 ... When the Dicks isolated their so-called "Streptococcus scarlatinae" and patented the toxin and antitoxin derived from it, the idea ...