A concerning increase in global rates of severe invasive infections becoming resistant to key antibiotics has a team of infectious disease researchers studying a recently emerged strain of bacteria ...

Through a series of experiments, Griffith established that the virulence of the S strain was ... to the effective treatment of bacterial pneumonia. Over the years, Avery's group had accumulated ...

Walking pneumonia has been on the rise nationwide, mainly among kids. The bacteria can linger for weeks, but is treatable ...

They did this by constructing and testing mutants in which pVir, the large plasmid possessed by hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae strains, and other virulence factors alone or in combination were ...

Genes encoding virulence factors in these bacteria are frequently ... the annotation and comparative analysis of the complete genomes of several Streptococcus pneumoniae strains; and the development ...

They did this by constructing and testing mutants in which pVir, the large plasmid possessed by hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae strains, and other virulence factors alone or in combination were ...

A recent study confirmed amoxicillin's lower risk of treatment failure compared to penicillin V in treating pediatric pneumonia ... the onward transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae ...

They did this by constructing and testing mutants in which pVir, the large plasmid possessed by hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae strains, and other virulence factors alone or in combination ...

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Physicians Roseville Pediatrics are still seeing high numbers of strep throat and pneumonia cases. Some pneumonia cases have been viral, while others have ...

The findings of this study are described in a paper titled "Integrative genomic, virulence, and transcriptomic analysis of emergent Streptococcus dysgalactiae subspecies equisimilis (SDSE ...

WellSpan Pediatric Medicine Physicians across the Midsate are seeing seasonal allergies, asthma exacerbations and viral upper respiratory illnesses. This week UPMC Children’s Community ...