RIPK3 and pneumococcal meningitis: To further study the role of this necroptosis or necroptosis-like pathway in pneumococcal meningitis, we infected zebrafish larvae with 200 CFUs of wild-type S. pneumoniae D39V in the hindbrain ventricle and treated them with the necroptosis pathway inhibitor GSK′872, which is an RIPK3 inhibitor.53