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Streptococcus Pneumoniae and Pneumonia Research - 05/12/2018 - 06/12/2018

All research can be located on Pg. 17 of the black sketchbook.


Characters can not be too anthropomorphic.


Research questions:

How does the illness fight/attack the body?

How does it move or manipulate itself?

How is it killed/depleted?


https://www.blf.org.uk/support-for-you/pneumonia/causes

Streptococcus Pneumoniae is a bacteria that is currently the most common cause of Pneumonia.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptococcus_pneumoniae

  • They are usually found in pairs, they do not form spores and they are nonmotile.

  • It is a significant human pathogenic bacteria.

  • It resides symptomatically in healthy carriers colonising the respiratory tract, sinuses and nasal cavity.

Note: In people with weaker immune systems, such as the elderly or young children, the bacteria may become pathogenic (a pathogen) and spread elsewhere to cause disease, by way of direct person-to-person contact via respiratory droplets.


It is the main cause of pneumonia and meningitis in children and the elderly, and septicaemia in those infected with HIV. It causes other types of infections including:

  • Bronchitis

  • Rhinitis

  • Acute sinusitis

  • Conjunctivitis

  • Osteomyelitis

  • Sepsis

  • And others

It has a closed, circular DNA structure.

It can (I presume after becoming a serious infection) just create strings of balls that look like the end of rattlesnake tails.

There is a vaccine which can be taken to kill the bacteria.

It appears to be invasive.


It's in the air - somebody else spreads it through water droplets.

It will travel to the moistest and warmest bit and duplicate.

It can travel in the mucus.

Consider giving it swimming apparatus.

It can become pathogenic under the right conditions, especially when the immune system is suppressed.


How Streptococcus Pneumoniae causes pneumonia:

  1. The infection lives in the alveoli, in the lungs.

  2. The body sends out blood, white blood cells and plasma to fill the alveoli. This is known as the 'Inflammatory response'.

  3. This causes pneumonia.

06/12/2018

The vaccine and treatment

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pneumococcal-infections/

Given into a muscle or just under the skin.

Non-invasive pneumococcal infections - occur outside the major organs or the blood and tend to be less serious.

Non-invasive pneumococcal infections - these occur inside a major organ or the blood and tend to be more serious.


05/12/2018 - 06/12/2018

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