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 ...

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 ...

Streptococcus pneumoniae binds to host GAPDH on dying lung epithelial cells worsening secondary infection following influenza. Cell Reports , 2021; 35 (11): 109267 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021. ...

Separation of daughter cells during bacterial cell division requires splitting of the septal cross wall by peptidoglycan hydrolases. In Streptococcus pneumoniae, PcsB is predicted to perform this ...

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 ...

Elemental bio-images of mouse lungs during Streptococcus pneumoniae infection. The image shows increased zinc levels (orange to red regions) mobilised by the innate immune response to sites where ...

Griffith University's Institute for Glycomics has developed a groundbreaking, combination vaccine that may finally beat Streptococcus A infections. Human trials are set to begin, early as next ...

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 ...

Pneumolysin as a target for new therapies against pneumococcal infections: A systematic review.Image Credit: Kateryna Kon / Shutterstock. Background. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the primary ...

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 ...

A historical example of the deadly synergy of flu infection followed by S. pneumoniae superinfection is found in banked lung samples from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic that killed 40 million to ...