TNF and susceptibility to pneumonia measurement: Furthermore, the analysis of a mouse pneumonia model further revealed that wogonin reduced mortality in mice infected with S. pneumoniae laboratory strain D39 and S. pneumoniae clinical isolate E1, reduced the number of colony‐forming units in infected mice and decreased the W/D ratio and levels of the inflammatory factors TNF‐α, IL‐6 and IL‐1β in the lungs of infected mice.