It causes a distinctive rash on the body - and can lead to meningitis and pneumonia.
It is part of what sees us through bacterial pneumonia, or pyelonephritis, or cellulitis.
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These include a severe cough and breathing difficulties, ear infections, pneumonia and eye infections.
These can include ear infections, vomiting and diarrhoea, pneumonia, meningitis and serious eye disorders.
Pneumonia is treated with antibiotics and generally clears up within two or three weeks.
Their newborn died of pneumonia when they didn't have money to take her to a doctor.
The youngster, who battled pneumonia when she was two-years-old, now models for children's clothes companies.
Pneumonia, congestive heart failure and heart attack accounted for the bulk of the reduction in deaths.
He was admitted in late March and received treatment for a recurring lung infection and pneumonia.
Brown died on Christmas Day, aged 73, after being admitted to hospital with severe pneumonia.
He said more research was needed to help doctors differentiate between chest infection and pneumonia.
Of about 100 patients with pneumonia, 15 required ventilators to help breathe, the Army said.
From 1998 through 2002, 17 soldiers died from pneumonia or its complications, the Army said.
Certain strains of E.coli can cause urinary tract infections, pneumonia and other illnesses.
He later developed pneumonia and died Saturday morning at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the son said.
She developed pneumonia as a complication of her flu and was lucky to survive.
Hardest hit are the lungs, which fill with mucus that can cause deadly pneumonia.
Diabetes increases the risk of infections of the skin, lung (pneumonia), and other organs.
Infrequently, bronchiolitis is accompanied by another lung infection such as bacterial pneumonia, which is treated separately.
Morrissey has postponed another concert in the US due to double pneumonia, his publicist has said.
That could make him susceptible to pneumonia, which would be very dangerous for him.
Today hyper-vigilant hospitals have managed to go months or years without a case of ventilator pneumonia.
The disease is a potentially fatal form of pneumonia caused by the legionella bacteria.
Ground had barely been broken when Johann, 55, succumbed to an embolism while hospitalized with pneumonia.
Bella died in New York in 1944 of pneumonia, a devoted wife, accountant and muse.
There was a series of severe cases of pneumonia in Jordan earlier in the year.
Take the case of Klebsiella pneumonia, a hospital superbug, which can cause lethal infections.
Scarlet fever, pneumonia and diphtheria all declined rapidly long before their cures were introduced.
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The pneumococcal vaccine, made by Pfizer, has resulted in dramatic drops in meningitis and pneumonia.
The doctors suggested this might also help in other lung diseases such as pneumonia and sepsis.
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