Eleven of these patients had pneumonia due to the hemolytic streptococcus and are the subject of this report. In each the diagnosis was based on clinical findings as well as culture material from ...

New research has uncovered exactly how the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae has become resistant to the antibiotic penicillin. The same research could also open up MRSA to attack by penicillin ...

Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS ... infection with Shigella dysenterieae or neuraminidase-producing Streptococcus pneumoniae. This is also called typical HUS. Diagnosis of this condition depends ...

Objective: To compare the safety and efficacy of clarithromycin and amoxicillin/clavulanic acid in patients with community-acquired pneumonia due to penicillin ...

Streptococcus pneumoniae is the leading bacterial cause of pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis in children, which together comprise more than 25% of the 10 million deaths estimated to have occurred ...

Streptococcus pneumoniae sticks to dying lung cells, worsening secondary infection following flu Date: June 24, 2021 Source: University of Alabama at Birmingham Summary: Researchers have found a ...

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 infection by ...

Because many pneumococci remain resistant, the changes we report are not likely to change recommendations regarding the empirical treatment of pneumonia, otitis media, and meningitis; those ...

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 ...