Pneumococcal pneumonia is a potentially serious bacterial lung infection that causes approximately 225,000 hospitalizations among adults in the U.S. each year. Age, certain underlying medical ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers from Germany conducted a population-based surveillance study to ascertain the etiology of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) ...

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 ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A bout with flu virus can be hard, but when Streptococcus pneumonia enters the mix, it can turn deadly. Now researchers have found a further reason for the severity of this dual ...

Initiation of a first-in-man Phase I clinical trial in healthy subjects Study aims to obtain safety and immunogenicity data of this new vaccine candidate Initial results expected in Q4 2009 ...

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 ...

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 ...