mortality/aging
• following infection with live Streptococcus pneumoniae, 80% of mice are dead by day 5 and 100% at day 7 compared to 25% and 66% at the same time points for infected wild-type mice
• following infection with S. pneumoniae wild-type lysate and S. pneumoniae pneumolysin (PLY), mice begin to die within hours of infection and all mice are dead by 6 hours
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immune system
• following infection with live Streptococcus pneumoniae, 80% of mice are dead by day 5 and 100% at day 7 compared to 25% and 66% at the same time points for infected wild-type mice
• following infection with S. pneumoniae wild-type lysate and S. pneumoniae pneumolysin (PLY), mice begin to die within hours of infection and all mice are dead by 6 hours
• following infection with S. pneumoniae, mice exhibit more massive alveolar hemorrhage compared to infected wild-type mice
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