page_title: Bacterial pneumonia
section_title: Gram-positive
hierarchical_section_title: Bacterial pneumonia / Types / Gram-positive
caption_attribution_description: English: Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria causes meningitis.
context_page_description: Bacterial pneumonia is a type of pneumonia caused by bacterial infection.
context_section_description: Streptococcus pneumoniae (J13) is the most common bacterial cause of pneumonia in all age groups except newborn infants. Streptococcus pneumoniae is a Gram-positive bacterium that often lives in the throat of people who do not have pneumonia.
  Other important Gram-positive causes of pneumonia are Staphylococcus aureus (J15.2) and Bacillus anthracis.
caption: 3D medical animation still showing Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria (causative bacteria of meningitis).
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