Infection Control Today - Streptococcus Pneumoniae

Genome Sequencing Provides Unprecedented Insight Into Causes of Pneumococcal Disease

A new study led by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK has, for the first time, used genome sequencing technology to track the changes in a bacterial population following the introduction of a vaccine. ...More

2 weeks ago

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How Does Antibiotic Resistance Spread? Scientists Find Answers in the Nose

Antibiotic resistance results from bacteria’s uncanny ability to morph and adapt, outwitting pharmaceuticals that are supposed to kill them. But exactly how the bacteria acquire and spread that resistance inside individuals carrying them is not well-established for most ...More

November 20, 2012

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Scientists Discover How a Bacterial Pathogen Breaks Down Barriers to Enter and Infect Cells

Scientists from the Schepens Eye Research Institute, a subsidiary of Mass. Eye and Ear and affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have found for the first time that a bacterial pathogen can literally mow down protective molecules, known as mucins, on mucus membranes to enter ...More

March 8, 2012

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Genetics Study Reveals How Bacteria Behind Serious Childhood Disease Evolve to Evade Vaccines

Genetics has provided surprising insights into why vaccines used in both the UK and U.S. to combat serious childhood infections can eventually fail. The study, published today in Nature Genetics, which investigates how bacteria change their disguise to evade the vaccines, ...More

January 30, 2012

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FDA Expands Use of Prevnar 13 Vaccine for People Ages 50 and Older

Prevnar 13, a pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for people ages 50 years and older to prevent pneumonia and invasive disease caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae. Pneumococcal pneumonia, caused when ...More

January 2, 2012

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Aging, Obsolete Cells Prime the Lungs for Pneumonia

Community-acquired pneumonia is the leading cause of infectious death among the elderly. Newly published research from The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio suggests why older people are vulnerable and offers a possible defense. The researchers found ...More

May 26, 2011

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Vaccine Made With Synthetic Gene Protects Against Pneumonia

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed an experimental vaccine that appears to protect against an increasingly common and particularly deadly form of pneumococcal pneumonia. Details of the new vaccine, which was tested in an ...More

February 22, 2011

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New Pneumococcal Vaccine Approach is Successful in Early Tests

Pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) accounts for as much as 11 percent of mortality in young children worldwide. While successful vaccines like Prevnar exist, they are expensive and only work against specific pneumococcal strains, with the risk of becoming less ...More

February 17, 2011

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New Research Traces Evolutionary Path of Multidrug-Resistant Strep Bacteria

Despite penicillin and the dozens of antibiotics that followed it, streptococcus bacteria have remained a major threat to health throughout the world. The reason: the superb evolutionary skills of this pathogen to rapidly alter its genetic makeup. In a landmark paper ...More

January 28, 2011

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New Treatment May Protect Against Pneumonia

Intranasal administration of the protein flagellin may activate innate immunity and protect against acute pneumonia say researchers from France. They report their findings in the October 2010 issue of the journal Infection and Immunity. Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major ...More

October 15, 2010

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