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Pneumococcus, Pneumococcal Disease, and Prevention
1 Introduction First isolated in 1880 by Pasteur in the saliva of a patient with rabies, Streptococcus pneumoniae (also known as the pneumococcus) has been branded as the “captain of the men of death” by William Osler, for the nefarious…