Sentences with phrase «as pneumococcus»

Streptococcus pneumoniae (also known as pneumococcus) is often responsible.

But scientific and economic obstacles have stymied the development of effective vaccines against many of the developing world's most deadly diseases, such as malaria and HIV as well as pneumococcus, the leading vaccine - preventable killer of children under the age of five.

Microorganisms can be viruses (such as the measles virus) or they can be bacteria (such as pneumococcus).

Not exact matches

Ubiquitous pathogens such as Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, and Pneumococcus, which among them cause ear, nose, and throat infections, scarlet fever, meningitis, and pneumonia, are becoming widely resistant.

As Scientific American reported earlier this month, officials from Italy, the U.K., Canada, Norway and Russia met in Rome on February 9, where they announced that their governments would commit the funds for vaccines against pneumococcus, which causes pneumonia and meningitis that kill up to a million children every year.

For the near term, groups known as accelerated development and introduction plans (ADIPs) have studied the possibility of more rapidly introducing new vaccines for rotavirus, a common diarrheal disease, and pneumococcus, a bacterium that causes pneumonia.

Our vision is a world where the burden caused by infectious diseases endemic in developing countries, such as malaria, dengue fever and pneumococcus, is substantially reduced through effective monitoring, control and, eventually, elimination.