These can be very dangerous, mainly in small children, greater people or in those than its state of health he is not optimal.
The infections by neumococo appear most frequently during the cold months and his I infect occurs of the same form that in other diseases, by means of the gotitas of saliva that a carrying person of the bacterium expels when speaking, toser or to sneeze. Also it is transmitted by direct bonding, through kisses or by means of the hands of a person who lava frequently during the day and does not have contact mainly with foods.
Neumococo can extend quickly, mainly in places where there are many children, as they are the infantile schools or day-care centers.
This bacterium lives on natural form in many people, lodges in the later part of the nose and it does not cause diseases, on the contrary, to be carrying of her, generally favors the development of defenses.
Nevertheless in that they have a weak system immunological, by the age or condition of health, it can develop serious infections, between which they are:
- Meningitis, or the inflammation of meninges of the brain.
- Bacteremia, that is a generalized infection, caused by the circulation of bacteria in the blood.
- Neumonía or pulmonía, that causes the inflammation in the lungs.
- Sinusitis, that is the infection of the paranasales sines
- average Otitis, that is the infection of ears.
The infections by neumococo, also can put in danger the life of people with:
- VIH or AIDS and other diseases of the immunological system.
- Disease of falciformes cells.
- Leukemia or linfoma.
- cardiac, pulmonary chronic Diseases or of the kidney.
- To people to those who bazo has been extirpated them or that does not work to them suitably.
- In patients to those who transplants of bony marrow or other organs have practiced them.
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