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pneumococcus

NOUN
  1. bacterium causing pneumonia in mice and humans

How To Use pneumococcus In A Sentence

  • These scientists have recently discovered that a significant proportion of pneumonia in children is not caused by a virus, but by a bacterium - the pneumococcus.
  • Vaccines are now also given against the pneumococcus organism, a common cause of bacterial pneumonia.
  • The bacteria pneumococcus, with more than 90 serotypes, is a common pathogen with many unknowns.
  • Answer: Pneumococcus meningitis (meninx or spinal meninge infection) the incipient symptoms have a fever, listless or sleepy, the vomit, as well as the neck strong straight or the thigh is stiff.
  • We investigated uptake of pneumococcus and influenza vaccine in all children with diabetes in our area.
  • It has been approved for certain gram-positive infections including certain drug-resistant enterococcus, staphylococcus, and pneumococcus strains.
  • Antibiotics were first discovered in the early 1900's when a drug called sulfanilamide was found to protect people from fatal bacterial infections such as pneumococcus. Vaccine Science
  • The pneumococcus, a bacterium, is responsible for about a third of community pneumonia cases.
  • The next morning grandma was worse and the labs called to say that the pneumococcus was present in both specimens and that it was resistant to penicillin.
  • Pneumococcus meningitis (meninx or spinal cord infection) symptom: Has a fever, listless or sleepy, the vomit, as well as the neck strong straight or the thigh is stiff.
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