Cases of pneumococcal pneumonia surged in 2022 and 2023. The bacterial infection attacks the lungs, causing air sacs to ...
ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — The Ector County Health Department said Tuesday that a local child younger than 5 has died from complications caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, marking the county’s first ...
UAB researchers are launching a space based study aboard the International Space Station to investigate how pneumonia causes ...
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 ...
The researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of 188,721 hospitalized patients in Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals across the United States from 2015 to 2025. “We know that people often get ...
In a recent multicenter prospective study conducted at three hospitals in Tennessee and Georgia, including Vanderbilt University Medical Center, researchers at VUMC found a substantial burden of ...
Now researchers have found a further reason for the severity of this dual infection by identifying a new virulence mechanism for a surface protein on the pneumonia-causing bacteria S. pneumoniae. This ...
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Infectious disease specialists are warning parents as strep A infections continue to circulate, especially in children. The CDC issued an advisory about a surge in strep throat ...
(WXYZ) — COVID-19 is sweeping across metro Detroit once again, and most providers are seeing their share of patients. But, we're also in the heart of cold and flu ...