Scientists Engineer Protein That Could Battle Strep

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"M1 protein can also act as a toxin, producing clotting abnormalities and lung injury when injected into mice. Therefore, our results with modified M1 provide very novel insight about the role of M proteins in invasive GAS disease and rheumatic heart disease," Nizet said in a prepared statement.

Each year, strep infections afflict more than 600 million people worldwide and kill 400,000, according to background information in a news release about the research.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about Group A Strep.

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