Word: pneumococcus
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What's harder to evaluate is the treatment of something like a middle-ear infection, which is indeed caused by several different types of bacteria, including Pneumococcus. Left alone, a handful of these infections could lead to permanent hearing loss. And yet their treatment has, in just the past 10 years in the U.S., boosted the prevalence of penicillin-resistant pneumococci to more than...