Pneumoniae

The consensus about M. pneumoniae is that an organism with a much simpler genome once preceded it in the timeline of natural history. ❋ Unknown (2010)

M. pneumoniae is a poster organism for this concept. ❋ Unknown (2010)

¬ † ¬ † Not a word though on how Streptococcus pneumoniae is doing. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Our project involves taking genes from a pathogenic bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae, which is by no means ideal, but an alternative could not be found in a non-pathogenic species. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of ear infections, bacterial meningitis, and infant septicemia. ❋ Ann Lukits (2011)

One Microbe as a Group of 200 Protein Machines is a New York Times article discussing protein complexes of the organism Mycoplasma pneumoniae. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Prokaryotes are far simpler then eukaryotes, and M. pneumoniae has one of the smallest genomes of the prokaryotes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Over the past few decades, the medical literature has focused on the possibility of some infectious agent playing a causal role and candidates have included the bacterium Chlamydia pneumoniae, as well as various viruses including Epstein-Barr and human herpes virus type six. ❋ M.D. David Perlmutter (2011)

Much like Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), pneumococcal bacteria (Streptococcus pneumoniae) affect the most defenseless of the population (infants and toddlers). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Walsh discovered the NDM 1 gene after investigating the case of a patient in Sweden who was admitted to hospital in India infected with Klebsiella pneumoniae and E. coli bacteria. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Decades of experience and research had demonstrated that the main cause of everyday pneumonia—the kind that happens in a healthy person, not the kind that attacks an already-sick hospital patient—is a bacterium called Streptococcus pneumoniae, usually just called Pneumococcus. ❋ MARYN MCKENNA (2010)

The most common type of bacteria responsible for bacterial pneumonia in children is Streptococcus pneumoniae (or pneumococcus), with toddlers being the most at risk. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Of course, S. pneumoniae have been to space many times before - they're in the upper respiratory tract of 40% of the population. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Streptococcus pneumoniae colonizes the nasopharyngeal cavity in 5 - 70% of adults in the population depending primarily on whether they have recently been in close proximity to small children. ❋ Unknown (2007)

¬ † It is precisely because this organism may colonize otherwise healthy adults and cause them no problems unless or until they become immune-compromised (which indeed may occur during long-duration exploration-class missions), at which point space life scientists really do need to know whether S. pneumoniae behaves differently under conditions of microgravity. ❋ Unknown (2007)