Researchers have found a further reason for the severity of dual infection by influenza and Streptococcus pneumonia -- a new virulence mechanism for a surface protein on the pneumonia-causing bacteria ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers investigate the effect of colonization of the upper respiratory tract (URT) by Streptococcus pneumoniae on severe acute ...

Researchers have uncovered a crucial link between dietary zinc intake and protection against Streptococcus pneumoniae, the primary bacterial cause of pneumonia. Researchers have uncovered a crucial ...

Bacterial colonization in the upper respiratory tract is considered to be one of the major risk factors of COVID-19. In this context, studies have shown that the co-occurrence of invasive pneumococcal ...

To understand how this pathogen adapts to different locations in the body, and also how the host responds to the invading microbe, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the ...

Aim: Streptococcus pneumoniae continues to be an important cause of community-acquired respiratory tract infections. Because of increase in its antimicrobial resistance, the surveillance of the local ...

ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — The Ector County Health Department said Tuesday that a local child younger than 5 has died from complications caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, marking the county’s first ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ztj5s3/streptococcus) has announced the addition of the "Streptococcus ...

A study by Nongnooch Poowanawittayakom, MD, of the Infectious Diseases department at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, and colleagues, examined the medical records of ...

Large, contemporary, cross-sectional study highlights the urgent need for local epidemiology data to be available to inform empiric antibiotic choices that are concordant with the IDSA/ATS ...

Researchers have uncovered a crucial link between dietary zinc intake and protection against Streptococcus pneumoniae, the primary bacterial cause of pneumonia. Globally, it is estimated that nearly ...