The number of cases of meningitis and blood poisoning is decreasing, and this is clearly due to the inclusion, since 2006, of ...

The number of cases of meningitis and blood poisoning is decreasing, and this is clearly due to the inclusion, since 2006, of ...

People of other ages with certain health conditions are also advised to get the shot. Pneumococcal disease is caused by ...

U.S. health officials now recommend that adults aged 50 and older receive a pneumococcal vaccine to protect against bacteria ...

U.S. health officials now recommend pneumococcal vaccination for adults 50 and older to mitigate serious illnesses like ...

U.S. health officials on Wednesday recommended that people 50 and older get a shot against bacteria that can cause pneumonia and other dangerous illnesses. The recommendation was made by a scientific ...

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A classical example is the polysaccharide antigens of pneumococci. Although this bacterium has >90 chemically different polysaccharide forms, most human disease is associated with only 23 variants.

There are more than 100 known types of pneumococci bacteria, which can cause serious infections in the lungs and other parts ...

The penicillin-resistant pneumococci are frequently resistant to other antibiotics as well, including erythromycin, tetracyclines, and trimethoprim-sulbactam. Also, decreased susceptibility to ...

Widespread use of PCV13, which covers additional serotypes 3, 6A and 19A, may contribute to reduce the clonal spread of drug-resistant 19A pneumococci. The author has no relevant affiliations or ...

“To Park’s amazement, Sabin developed a method for the rapid typing of pneumococci [taken from pneumonia patients], turning what had been an overnight process into one that now took two or ...