it often causes pneumonia in older people, young children, and smokers or those with weaker immune systems due to either illness or medication. Although rarer than strep pneumonia, other bacteria ...

There are two leading causes of pneumonia ... According to the studies, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b [Hib] infections take the lives of an estimated 1.2 million ...

Walking pneumonia has been steadily infecting more people since last spring, says the agency, with younger children ...

Infections tend to be most common among older children and adolescents but in 2024 have been rampant among young children, ...

Certain kinds of bacteria — streptococcus ... rhinoviruses and human metapneumovirus are less common causes of viral pneumonia. , it’s milder than typical bacterial pneumonia.

Antimicrobial resistance and serotypes in Streptococcus pneumoniae have been evolving with the widespread use of antibiotics and the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV).

In adults, the most common cause of community-acquired pneumonia is a bacterial infection. Of these, Streptococcus pneumoniae ...

It is among the leading causes of death in people older than ... But preventative vaccines against one specific type of bacteria, Streptococcus pneumoniae, can greatly reduce the risk of ...

Objective: To compare the safety and efficacy of clarithromycin and amoxicillin/clavulanic acid in patients with community-acquired pneumonia due to penicillin ...