Pneumococcal infection is an infection caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae. S. pneumoniae is a common member of the bacterial flora colonizing...

Pneumococcal vaccines are vaccines against the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae. Their use can prevent some cases of pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis...

The organism also causes many types of pneumococcal infections other than pneumonia. These invasive pneumococcal diseases include bronchitis, rhinitis...

pneumonia, and one of the common types of pneumococcal infection. The estimated number of Americans with pneumococcal pneumonia is 900,000 annually, with almost...

Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, sold under the brand name Pneumovax 23, is a pneumococcal vaccine that is used for the prevention of pneumococcal...

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is a pneumococcal vaccine made with the conjugate vaccine method and used to protect infants, young children, and adults...

Tatham DP, Andrews RM (January 2013). "Vaccines for preventing pneumococcal infection in adults". The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2013 (1):...

Tatham DP, Andrews RM (January 2013). "Vaccines for preventing pneumococcal infection in adults". The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 1 (1):...

from an infection. Infections can be caused by a wide range of pathogens, most prominently bacteria and viruses. Hosts can fight infections using their...

(primary and secondary prophylaxis) Streptococcal skin infections Spleen disorders (pneumococcal infection prophylaxis) Initial treatment for dental abscesses...

remained important as the understanding of the epidemiology of pneumococcal infections still required their identification to determine where different...

Activation Is a Critical Component of the Innate Immune Response to Pneumococcal Infection". PLOS Pathogens. 8 (7): e1002793. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002793...

apparently impaired vocal cords suggest instead tubercular or pneumococcal infection. Frequent infections of that nature could have caused the growth of polyps...

streptomycin during dual infection by two pneumococcal strains could increase transformation—and virulence—while for the first time pneumococcal transformation...

"Addiction of Hypertransformable Pneumococcal Isolates to Natural Transformation for In Vivo Fitness and Virulence". Infection and Immunity. 84 (6): 1887–1901...

their current status. Some on the list are vaccine-preventable diseases. Infections associated with diseases List of oncogenic bacteria List of causes of...

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI or C-diff), also known as Clostridium difficile infection, is a symptomatic infection due to the spore-forming...

differing health concerns; the former is at risk of developing a pneumococcal infection from exposure to humans, while the latter may harbor tapeworms after...

symptoms are present they may range from mild pneumonia resembling a pneumococcal infection to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Common symptoms include...

deadly infection of type III-S pneumococci. In their paper "Studies on the Chemical Nature of the Substance Inducing Transformation of Pneumococcal Types:...

The Effect of Alcoholic Intoxication Upon Acquired Resistance to Pneumococcal Infection in Rabbits, was published the following year in the Journal of Immunology...

limbs can occur in meningococcal disease. Severe meningococcal and pneumococcal infections may result in hemorrhaging of the adrenal glands, leading to...

by birth.[unreliable medical source?] Most cases are caused by a viral infection. Recurrent episodes are more likely in persons with asthma, cystic fibrosis...

X-ray. Confirmed Case: Meet the probable case definition plus have pneumococcal infection confirmed by blood culture or other isolation of pneumococci from...

awarded the Robert Austrian Research Award in Pneumococcal Vaccinology. Ferreira joined the Respiratory Infection group at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine...

role in the development of the first successful vaccine to prevent pneumococcal infection in 1977. He founded Global Strategies for HIV Prevention and was...

(2016). "Lung epithelium and myeloid cells cooperate to clear acute pneumococcal infection". Mucosal Immunology. 9 (5): 1288–1502. doi:10.1038/mi.2015.128...

measures reduced the rate of these infections by 50% between 1992 and 1997. Influenza vaccination and pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine are often recommended...

researcher, focusing on the field of host-bacteria interactions and pneumococcal infections. She is a professor of Clinical Microbiology at the Karolinska...

vaccine, the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and the meningococcal vaccine, which immunize them against tuberculosis, measles, pneumococcal infection and hepatitis...