Antibiotics revolutionized health care when they were introduced in the early twentieth century, making many severe and often ...

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 ...

We describe four patients with pneumococcal pneumonia in whom empirical treatment with oral levofloxacin failed. In all four cases, an organism that either was resistant to levofloxacin before therapy ...