Pneumococcus

Pneumococcus is known as an “opportunistic” infection because it lives in the respiratory tract of people without causing disease, but when the respiratory tract is compromised by an infection such as influenza, the bacteria then invades the lungs (pneumonia), bloodstream (sepsis), or brain and spinal cord (meningitis).

Did You Know? 2010

Pneumococcus is a bacterium that causes several different types of serious infections in children.

Pneumococcus Vaccine 2010

Pneumococcus is a bacterium that is commonly found lining the surface of the nose and the back of the throat.

Pneumococcus Vaccine 2010

Pneumococcus is a common cause of ear infections in infants and young children.

Pneumococcus Vaccine 2010

Decades of experience and research had demonstrated that the main cause of everyday pneumonia—the kind that happens in a healthy person, not the kind that attacks an already-sick hospital patient—is a bacterium called Streptococcus pneumoniae, usually just called Pneumococcus.

SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

Decades of experience and research had demonstrated that the main cause of everyday pneumonia—the kind that happens in a healthy person, not the kind that attacks an already-sick hospital patient—is a bacterium called Streptococcus pneumoniae, usually just called Pneumococcus.

SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

Decades of experience and research had demonstrated that the main cause of everyday pneumonia—the kind that happens in a healthy person, not the kind that attacks an already-sick hospital patient—is a bacterium called Streptococcus pneumoniae, usually just called Pneumococcus.

SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

Pneumococcus causes pneumonia, bloodstream infections, and meningitis.

Vaccine Science 2010

Do they have high rates of secondary bacterial pneumonia with Staphylococcus aureus or Pneumococcus?

Richard P. Wenzel: The Return of Swine Flu -- A Death in the U.S. and Uncertainty 2009

According to Wonodi most children who die from pneumonia are under five years old, from causes directly linked to Pneumococcus and Haemophilus Influennsa type B (HIB) bacteria infections.

Pneumonia: The Serial Child Killer 2009