Since the advent of antibiotics in the 1930s the mortality associated with invasive pneumococcal infection (IPI) resulted in a rapid decline [1]. In recent years, a larger number of cases have been reported due to penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains [2]. Austrian syndrome is a rare triad of pneumococcal pneumonia, meningitis and endocarditis [3]. We hereby present a case of in...

Pneumonia remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality among infectious diseases. Streptococcus pneumoniae and viruses are the most common cause of pneumonia. Candidiasis in such patients has been associated with haemodialysis, fungal colonization, exposure to broad-spectrum antibiotics, intensive care unit (ICU) hospitalization, and immunocompromised patients. The most common cause of...

objective: in-time diagnosis of streptococcus pneumoniae (s. pneumonia) can play a significant role in decreasing morbidity and mortality rate. applying molecular methods has gained popularity due to the existing limits of routine diagnostic methods. examining the expression of different genes of this bacterium through different molecular methods suggests that lyta gene has a higher sensitivity...

BACKGROUND: A recently licensed pneumococcal conjugate vaccine has been shown to be highly effective in the prevention of bacteremia in immunized children but the degree of protection against pneumonia has been difficult to determine. METHODS: We sought to develop a model of Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia in Sprague-Dawley rats. We challenged three-week old Sprague-Dawley pups via intrapulm...

Anaerobes used to be the most common cause of community-acquired lung abscess, and Streptococcus species used to be the second most common cause. In recent years, this has been changing. Klebsiella pneumoniae is now an increasing cause of community- acquired lung abscess, but Streptococcus species continue to be major pathogens. Necrotizing pneumonia has generally been regarded as a rare compli...

Pneumococcal pneumonia and invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) remain a considerable cause of morbidity and mortality, with recent data showing a continued unacceptably high social and economic burden. Streptococcus pneumoniae can be isolated from 5-10% of healthy adults and 20-40% of healthy children1. Infection can result in a variety of clinical syndromes with meningitis, pneumonia, and seps...

Pneumococcal Disease Streptococcus pneumoniae causes an acute bacterial infection. The bacterium, also called pneumococcus, was first isolated by Pasteur in 1881 from the saliva of a patient with rabies. The association between the pneumococcus bacterium and lobar pneumonia was first described by Friedlander and Talamon in 1883, but pneumococcal pneumonia was confused with other types of pneumo...

The lipopeptide daptomycin has been approved for use in skin and skin-structure infections but has failed to meet statistical noninferiority criteria in a clinical trial for severe community-acquired pneumonia. Daptomycin exhibited an unusual pattern of activity in pulmonary animal models: efficacy in Staphylococcus aureus hematogenous pneumonia and inhalation anthrax but no activity against St...

Round pneumonia is a term referring to round or oval densities on chest x-ray. Round pneumonias have rarely been reported. First recognized in children, round pneumonias were due to Streptococcus pneumoniae or Haemophilus influenzae. Round pneumonias are probably frequently undiagnosed in the adult population, The appearance of such a pneumonia on chest x-ray may be round or oval, the borders m...