When Streptococcus pneumoniae was suspected, the biological specimens were sown in 5% sheep-blood agar and incubated at 35° C for 24 h at 5 to 10% CO 2. Alfa-hemolytic colonies were tested with a 6mm ...

1 Beijing Minhai Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Beijing, China 2 Center for Infection Biology, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Pneumococcal disease is caused by Streptococcus ...

Streptococcus pneumoniae is the leading cause of community-acquired pneumonia and an important cause of childhood mortality. Despite the introduction of successful vaccines, the global spread of both ...

Introduction Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) is one of the bacteria frequently causing fatal infections (Bogaert et al., 2004; Engholm et al., 2017). Young children, the elderly, and patients ...

We describe the applicability of the E test (AB Biodisk Solna, Sweden), a new method for determining minimum inhibitory concentrations of antimicrobial agents against bacteria. This report is based on ...

Abstract Survival in the human host requires bacteria to respond to unfavorable conditions. In the important Gram-positive pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae, cell wall biosynthesis proteins MurM and ...

Discover the prevalence and genetic characteristics of optochin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in Japan. Learn about mutations in the atpC gene and implications for diagnosis. First report in ...