A molecule that plays a key role in bacterial communication and infection has been identified by a research group at Carnegie Mellon University. Their findings add a new word to pneumococcus' ...

Vaccines that protect people from infection by Streptococcus pneumoniae, which kills up to one million children ever year worldwide, train the immune system to recognize the pathogen’s thick sugar ...

Pneumococcus kills 1 million children annually according to the World Health Organization. The key to the pathogen's virulence is its thick sugar capsule, which is also the active ingredient in ...

The Australian government announced last week there's a new vaccine for pneumococcal disease on the National Immunization Program for all children. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech ...

Nearly 80 per cent of adult Hongkongers have not received the vaccine against pneumococcus, a study has found, with experts expressing concern the group could be unprotected from a potential surge of ...

This illustration depicted a three-dimensional (3D), computer-generated image, of a group of Gram-positive, Streptococcus pneumonia bacteria. The artistic recreation was based upon scanning electron ...

ALTHOUGH the sulfonamide drugs are highly effective in the treatment of the pneumococcal pneumonias, serious problems sometimes arise in their administration. In patients with underlying cardiac or ...

Often it is the chemical structure of individual bacterial cells that enables them to resist the onslaught of antibiotics. If, for example, a patient fails to take a full course of antibiotics, ...

Researchers have identified a molecule that plays a key role in bacterial communication and infection. Their findings add a new word to pneumococcus' molecular dictionary and may lead to novel ways to ...