Streptococcus pneumoniae is a bacterial infection that causes pneumonia. It is rod-shaped or circular and found in the lung walls of infected humans and animals like goats and sheep. It spreads through coughing and sneezing and fills the lungs with fluid, impairing oxygen intake and carbon dioxide removal. Known as pneumococcal pneumonia, it is a leading cause of death in the United States.

2. Scientific Name: Streptococcus Pneumoniae
What am I?
What do I Look Like?
I am a bacterial
infection that causes
an inflammation of
the lungs and fills it
up with fluid.
I can be
rod shaped and circular

3. Where Can I be Found?
How do I Travel from Person to Person
I am found in the
lung walls inside of
people.
I mainly travel by
coughing and sneezing

4. Can I only be found in Humans?
What conditions do I need to survive?
I can fill
up your
air sacs
with
fluid.
I can
infect
goats
and
sheep.
I need
fluid to
survive
Circulatory
System
Respiratory
System

5. Some Interesting Facts About Me
 When I am in both of your lungs I’m called
double pneumonia.
 5% of people will die from me.
 I am the 6th leading cause of death in the US.
 The worst type of me is A Typical Pneumonia
 I was first indentified in cattle in 1938.
 I was found in humans later by a man
named Riemann.

7. First Line of Defense
Mucus helps take
out the bacterial
infection
The mucus tries to get
the bacteria to stick to it
so the cilia can take it
out

8. Second Line of Defense
The Alveoli is where
I travel through
when attacking
These white blood
cells are the things
that were attacking
me.

9. Third Line of Defense
Antigens
attached
themselves
to me and
started
producing
antibodies to
get rids of
me.

10. Lung Cells
But when the air sacs are
filled with fluid its hard
for the oxygen to get in
the bloodstream and its
hard for the Co2 to get
out of the stream. The
lung cells don’t get
damaged unless they get
in the way and die.

11. Symptoms, How you can get rid of
me? How to avoid me?
One of the
Symptoms are
Exhaustion
If you want
to avoid
me you
should get
vaccines
Preventing
getting sick you
should wash