Bacterial pneumonia is most commonly caused by a bacteria called Streptococcus pneumoniae which accounts for around 50% of cases ... Those with poorer response rates tend to be over the age of 60, ...

"Getting his blood clean, making sure his kidneys are okay. But his lungs... he's on an antibiotic to get rid of the strep pneumoniae, but the lungs are the very last thing that will happen." ...

When kids get sick, pediatricians usually like to diagnose them with one single thing, so they usually wouldn't diagnose strep and mono at the same time. Both strep throat and mono do have similar ...

A toddler with a Strep A infection was given antibiotics too late after a pharmacist could not issue alternative medication during shortages due to restrictions, a coroner has found. The DH said the ...

Patients with CAP were classified into 3 mutually exclusive groups as follows: those with documented bacteremia (cases), those without bacteremia as documented by a negative or contaminated blood ...

A blood moon occurs during a total lunar eclipse when Earth's shadow casts a reddish tint on the moon. This intriguing visual phenomenon arises due to Rayleigh scattering of sunlight. The next ...

Milk samples were diluted with sterilized phosphate-buffered saline at 10, 100 and 1,000 times to calculate colony forming units (cfu), and 100 μL each were inoculated onto chromogenic agar plate ...

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Colin Smith died at the age of seven after being infected with HIV and hepatitis C The father of a seven-year-old who died of Aids after being given infected blood has described the compensation ...

Reliable and accurate diagnosis of these infections is therefore of utmost importance. Blood cultures are the reference method for diagnosis of BSI. LMICs face many challenges when implementing blood ...

During the current peak season for respiratory infections in children, the primary pathogens remain viruses and mycoplasma pneumoniae, with the influenza virus being the most prevalent ...