An important development in understanding how the bacterium that causes pneumonia, meningitis and septicaemia remains harmlessly in the nose and throat has been discovered. The research took place at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Infection and Global Health. iStreptococcus pneumoniae/i is a 'commensal', which can live harmlessly in the nasopharynx as part of the body's natural bacterial flora. However, in the very young and old it can invade the ...
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