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 ...

S. pneumoniae relies on fermentation and glycolysis to produce energy. During fermentation, pyruvate is converted to lactate, acetate and ethanol, and NADH is oxidized to regenerate NAD+, which is ...

Dietary zinc and the control of Streptococcus pneumoniae infection. PLOS Pathogens, 2019; 15 (8): e1007957 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007957 ...

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

Karin Blau, Maxim Portnoi, Marilou Shagan, Antonina Kaganovich, Slava Rom, Daniel Kafka, Vered Chalifa Caspi, Angel Porgador, Noga Givon-Lavi, Jonathan M. Gershoni, Ron Dagan, Yaffa Mizrachi Nebenzahl ...

Thus, our finding of PspA's role in adherence substantially advances our knowledge on the interactions of S. pneumoniae with its host." Reference: Park S-S, Gonzalez-Juarbe N, Riegler AN, et al.

Pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA) is a cell-surface protein of Streptococcus pneumoniae that is present on a number of clinical isolates as well as on the nonencapsulated laboratory strain Rx1.