Stereptoccus Pneumonia

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According to Mayo Clinic, “pneumonia is an infection that inflames the air sacs in one or both lungs.” Pneumonia is a common infection found in long term living facilities, hospitals, and especially in the community in general. Every year around one million adults are hospitalized for pneumonia, of these one million, about 50,000 of these adults expires from the infection. While in children, there are 120 million cases of pneumonia in children under the age of five every year. According to the American Thoracic Society, in 2013, there were 935,000 deaths of children under the age of five from pneumonia alone. Pneumonia has been dated back to Greek Civilization. Pneumonia is most commonly caused by the bacteria Streptococcus Pneumonia; in

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