{"id":5692,"date":"2022-12-25T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T20:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5692"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T04:51:32","slug":"streptococcus-strep-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/streptococcus-strep-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Streptococcus (strep A)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is Streptococcus (strep A)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Group A Streptococcus (GAS), also known as Strep A, <strong>are bacteria<\/strong> commonly found on the skin or in the throat.<\/li>\n<li>Occasionally, this can lead to a condition called <strong>scarlet fever,<\/strong> which typically affects young schoolchildren and is characterized by a sore throat, high fever and rough skin rash.<\/li>\n<li>Even it can cause severe diseases such as sepsis, streptococcal toxic shock syndrome and necrotizing fasciitis.<\/li>\n<li>According to British Health Security Agency (UKHSA), in children under 10 years, the rate of GAS infection is higher than levels reported in the years preceding the COVID-19 pandemic but substantially higher than in the past two years, according to UKHSA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Q1)\u00a0What is the modern name for scarlet fever?<\/p>\n<p>Scarlet fever, also called scarlatina, is characterised by a scarlatiniform rash and usually occurs with group A strep pharyngitis. It can also follow group A strep pyoderma or wound infections. Characteristics of the rash typically include: Erythematous rash that blanches on pressure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/reader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group A Streptococcus also known as Strep A are bacteria commonly found on the skin or in the throat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}