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' ...

New research has shown how the immune system detects and destroys the bug, pneumococcus, which could help in the development of a new vaccine against the disease. New research has shown how the immune ...

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 ...

In an appeal submitted to the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Estonian Ear, Nose and Throat and Head and Neck Surgeons Society is proposing that the Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) be added to ...

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 ...

Findings from US longitudinal household study add to ongoing US vaccination policy discussions by suggesting that pneumococcal vaccination in older adults is important even in populations where ...

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 ...

Carnegie Mellon University 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 ...