pneumococcus
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Origin of pneumococcus
From New Latin, dating back to 1885–90; see origin at pneumo- , -coccus
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In the case of pneumococcus, for example, immunizing children indirectly protects older adults by limiting transmission.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2022
You know, you and I can be exposed to a pneumococcus and one person gets pneumonia and the other doesn’t.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2019
We have children’s vaccines against measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, chickenpox, polio, hepatitis A and B, rotavirus, pneumococcus, haemophilus influenzae and meningococcal disease.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2018
Also called pneumococcus, this pathogen is the most common perpetrator of community-acquired pneumonia, which is pneumonia that people get outside hospitals and nursing homes.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2016
Griffith approached the problem by focusing on the microbe: Why was pneumococcus so fatal to animals?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
It can be caused by any one of 33 types of pneumococci, by many other bacteria, or by viruses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet, the baby, instead of dying, "showed marked improvement . . . within 24 hours," and in a few days the sulfapyridine conquered flu germs as well as pneumococci.
From Time Magazine Archive
What he saw was swarms of vicious pneumococci and tiny, rod-shaped, bloodsucking Hemophilus influenzae, most common of the numerous organisms connected with flu.
From Time Magazine Archive
To combat the pneumococci, he gave the baby injections of the remarkable new drug sulfapyridine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Syphilis is a common cause, but the condition may follow on infections with ordinary pyogenic cocci, pneumococci, the influenza bacillus or the bacillus coli.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
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