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We aimed to investigate 15-year trends in the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of severe pneumococcal pneumonia patients requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission.Methods: We analyzed data from a prospective cohort of adult patients with severe pneumonia admitted to the 28-bed medical ICU of a 2,700-bed tertiary hospital in South Korea between 2010 and 2024. Temporal changes in incidence, resistance to antimicrobial agents, frequency of coinfections, and mortality were evaluated across three 5-year periods.Results: Among 2,511 ICU patients with severe pneumonia, 140 (5.6%) had pneumococcal infections. The proportion of pneumococcal cases decreased from 9.9% in 2010\u20132014 to 4.2% in 2015\u20132019, and further to 2.2% in 2020\u20132024 (p&lt;0.001 for trend). Conversely, ceftriaxone non-susceptibility rates rose sharply from 4.8% to 16.7% and 45.5% across the same periods (p&lt;0.001). Coinfections were frequent and increased significantly, largely due to respiratory viruses, with rates of 48.9%, 61.8%, and 77.8%, respectively (p=0.02). Influenza was the predominant co-pathogen during 2015\u20132019, whereas severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was most frequent in 2020\u20132024. The 90-day mortality rates remained stable over time (29.5%, 38.2%, and 27.8%, p=0.64).Conclusion: In this single-center ICU cohort, the proportion of severe pneumococcal pneumonia cases decreased over the 15-year period, whereas ceftriaxone non-susceptibility and viral coinfections became more frequent. These trends should be interpreted cautiously given the lack of serotype and individual vaccination data and incomplete susceptibility results. 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