It is the bacterium that causes pneumonia.
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In vitro, it inhibits the growth of Diplococcus pneumoniae and other bacteria and delays the deterioration of embryonic renal cells caused by a virus.
Pneumococcus is really Streptococcus Pneumoniae and it has a lancet shape and is often paired (which is why it's called a diplococcus, di=two).
The genus is Mycoplasma and the species is pneumoniae. It's binomial name is Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
possibly it causes pneumonia, so you could say it causes pneumonia. pneumococcus
It is itself taxonomic name of Pneumonia Bacteria .
Streptococcus pneumoniae, the most common organism causing pneumonia, produces a death rate of about 5%
It is responsible for 10-20% of all pneumonias
Streptococcus pneumoniae IS the scientific name
Staphylcoccus pneumoniae
Diplococcus, I believe.
diplococcus,streptococcus,gonococcus