Common antibiotics include penicillins, such as amoxicillin, and other types including cephalosporins (like cefalexin), or tetracyclines (like doxycycline). Antibiotics are medicines that are used to ...

New research has uncovered exactly how the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae has become resistant to the antibiotic penicillin. The same research could also open up MRSA to attack by penicillin ...

Dietary zinc protects against Streptococcus pneumoniae infection, study finds Date: August 22, 2019 Source: University of Melbourne Summary: Researchers have uncovered a crucial link between ...

Pneumococcal disease is an infection caused by the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae or pneumococcus. People can be infected with the bacteria, or they can carry it in their throats and not be ill.

A bout with flu virus can be hard, but when Streptococcus pneumonia enters the mix, it can turn deadly. Now researchers have found a further reason for the severity of this dual infection by ...

The discovery of DNA as the hereditary material was built upon decades of clinical research with the pneumococcus bacterium. Frederick Griffith's 1928 discovery of transformation galvanized ...

Study: Longitudinal dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage and SARS-CoV-2 infection in households with children. Image Credit: Lotus_studio / Shutterstock.com *Important notice: medRxiv ...

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a type of bacteria that can cause pneumococcal disease. There are more than 100 strains of this bacteria, though not all of them lead to infections. People can carry ...

Cipro is an antibiotic that doctors use to treat uncomplicated urinary tract infections or UTIs. For Cipro to work, people must take the full course of the drug and follow their doctor's instructions.