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Definition of pneumococcus in English: pneumococcusnounPlural pneumococci ˌnjuːmə(ʊ)ˈkɒkəsˌn(j)umoʊˈkɑkəs A bacterium associated with pneumonia and some forms of meningitis. Streptococcus pneumoniae, a Gram-positive diplococcus Example sentencesExamples - About 75% of pneumonias in the elderly are caused by the pneumococcus.
- The increasing resistance of pneumococci to antibiotics, the waning immunity in the elderly population and the low incidence of adverse effects with the conjugated pneumococcal vaccine may make periodic boosters routine.
- The carrying of resistant pneumococci in childhood has been associated with younger age, attendance at daycare centres, and previous use of antibiotics.
- Currently, many pneumococci are resistant to penicillins and other agents.
- In a study from France of HIV-infected inpatients with bacterial pneumonia, 75% of the pneumococci had decreased susceptibility to penicillin.
- The bacteria pneumococcus, with more than 90 serotypes, is a common pathogen with many unknowns.
- Community acquired infections with pneumococci cause pneumonia, blood poisoning, and middle ear disease in over six and a half million cases and 40,000 deaths.
- For example, in some parts of the world pneumococci remain predictably sensitive to penicillin, and this drug can remain a first line agent for presumed pneumococcal meningitis, but we do not know how long this will be true.
- This relatively simple test told us that Marie Anne had bacterial meningitis due to the pneumococcus, an organism that belonged in her throat, not in her nervous system.
- Therefore, these vaccines may protect against 85 to 90 percent of invasive and respiratory infections caused by pneumococci in children in the United States.
- Vaccines are now also given against the pneumococcus organism, a common cause of bacterial pneumonia.
- 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.
- The pneumococcus, a bacterium, is responsible for about a third of community pneumonia cases.
- 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.
Derivatives adjective The pneumococcal bacterium is the second most common cause of bacterial meningitis. Example sentencesExamples - Last year pneumococcal meningitis accounted for 5% of all cases of bacterial meningitis in Ireland.
- Septicaemia, particularly pneumococcal and meningococcal, may be associated with widespread thrombosis.
- The new pneumococcal vaccine may help prevent ear infections caused by certain bacteria.
- But these same kind of bacteria, pneumococcal bacteria, also help cause ear infections, or otitis media.
Definition of pneumococcus in US English: pneumococcusnounˌn(y)o͞omōˈkäkəsˌn(j)umoʊˈkɑkəs A bacterium associated with pneumonia and some forms of meningitis. Streptococcus pneumoniae, a Gram-positive diplococcus Example sentencesExamples - The pneumococcus, a bacterium, is responsible for about a third of community pneumonia cases.
- The increasing resistance of pneumococci to antibiotics, the waning immunity in the elderly population and the low incidence of adverse effects with the conjugated pneumococcal vaccine may make periodic boosters routine.
- In a study from France of HIV-infected inpatients with bacterial pneumonia, 75% of the pneumococci had decreased susceptibility to penicillin.
- Therefore, these vaccines may protect against 85 to 90 percent of invasive and respiratory infections caused by pneumococci in children in the United States.
- About 75% of pneumonias in the elderly are caused by the pneumococcus.
- For example, in some parts of the world pneumococci remain predictably sensitive to penicillin, and this drug can remain a first line agent for presumed pneumococcal meningitis, but we do not know how long this will be true.
- The bacteria pneumococcus, with more than 90 serotypes, is a common pathogen with many unknowns.
- This relatively simple test told us that Marie Anne had bacterial meningitis due to the pneumococcus, an organism that belonged in her throat, not in her nervous system.
- Vaccines are now also given against the pneumococcus organism, a common cause of bacterial pneumonia.
- 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.
- The carrying of resistant pneumococci in childhood has been associated with younger age, attendance at daycare centres, and previous use of antibiotics.
- Community acquired infections with pneumococci cause pneumonia, blood poisoning, and middle ear disease in over six and a half million cases and 40,000 deaths.
- 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.
- Currently, many pneumococci are resistant to penicillins and other agents.
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