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Pneumococcal Disease in the Era of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine [PDF]

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2015
Universal immunization of infants and toddlers with pneumococcal conjugate vaccines over the last 15 years has dramatically altered the landscape of pneumococcal disease. Decreases in invasive pneumococcal disease, all-cause pneumonia, empyema, mastoiditis, acute otitis media, and complicated otitis media have been reported from multiple countries in ...
Inci, Yildirim, Kimberly M, Shea, Stephen I, Pelton   +2 more
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Pneumococcal antibody concentrations and carriage of pneumococci more than 3 years after infant immunization with a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: A 9-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV-9), given in a 3-dose schedule, protected Gambian children against pneumococcal disease and reduced nasopharyngeal carriage of pneumococci of vaccine serotypes.
Greenwood, Brian M, Godwin C. Enwere, Brown J Okoko, Nsekpong, Ekpedeme D, Godwin C Enwere, Ekpedeme D Nsekpong, Syed M. A. Zaman, Aderonke A. Odutola, Saaka, Mark, Zaman, Syed MA, Akinsola, Adebayo K, Richard A. Adegbola, Syed M A Zaman, Adebayo K. Akinsola, Aderonke A Odutola, Richard A Adegbola, Martin O. C. Ota, Okoko, Brown J, Odutola, Aderonke A, Martin O C Ota, Cutts, Felicity T, Felicity T Cutts, Ekpedeme D. Nsekpong, Felicity T. Cutts, Adebayo K Akinsola, Brown J. Okoko, Enwere, Godwin C, Brian M Greenwood, Mark Saaka, Adegbola, Richard A, Brian M. Greenwood, Ota, Martin OC   +31 more
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Effect of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on Pneumococcal Meningitis [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 2009
Invasive pneumococcal disease declined among children and adults after the introduction of the pediatric heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) in 2000, but its effect on pneumococcal meningitis is unclear.We examined trends in pneumococcal meningitis from 1998 through 2005 using active, population-based surveillance data from eight sites in
Heather E, Hsu, Kathleen A, Shutt, Matthew R, Moore, Bernard W, Beall, Nancy M, Bennett, Allen S, Craig, Monica M, Farley, James H, Jorgensen, Catherine A, Lexau, Susan, Petit, Arthur, Reingold, William, Schaffner, Ann, Thomas, Cynthia G, Whitney, Lee H, Harrison   +14 more
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Dynamic models of pneumococcal carriage and the impact of the Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on invasive pneumococcal disease. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: The 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine has been introduced in national immunisation programmes of most industrialised countries and recently in two African GAVI eligible countries (Rwanda and The Gambia). However the long term effects of
George, Robert, Robert George, Y.H. Choi, Miller, Elizabeth, Edmunds, John W., Elizabeth Miller, Melegaro, Alessia, Yoon Hong Choi, E. Miller, Choi, Yoon Hong, Gay, Nigel J, Edmunds, W John, Nigel J Gay, R. George, W John Edmunds, Alessia Melegaro, N.J. Gay, W.J. Edmunds, Gay, Nigel J., George Robert, Miller Elizabeth, Edmunds W John, Choi Yoon, Gay Nigel J, Melegaro Alessia   +24 more
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Vaccine hesitancy and receipt of mandatory and optional pediatric vaccines in Shanghai, China

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022
Given increased global concern about vaccine hesitancy, this study estimates coverage of mandatory vs non-mandatory vaccines in children, and assesses whether vaccine hesitancy among young parents relates to their childʻs eventual vaccination status in ...
Mengdi Ji, Zhuoying Huang, Jia Ren, Abram L. Wagner   +3 more
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Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines and Otitis Media [PDF]

International Journal of Otolaryngology, 2012
In a recent review published in International Journal of Otolaryngology, Fletcher and Fritzell provide a comprehensive and useful summary of the clinical trials assessing efficacy of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) against otitis media (OM) [1]. Although the Results section of the review is limited to clinical trial data, the Discussion section ...
S. Taylor, P. Marchisio, A. Vergison, W. P. Hausdorff, M. Haggard   +4 more
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Effectiveness of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines against invasive pneumococcal disease among children under five years of age in Africa: A systematic review.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundDespite the widespread implementation of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, Streptococcus pneumoniae remains the leading cause of severe pneumonia associated with mortality among children less than 5 years of age worldwide, with the highest ...
James Samwel Ngocho, Best Magoma, Gaudencia Alois Olomi, Michael Johnson Mahande, Sia Emmanueli Msuya, Marien Isaäk de Jonge, Blandina Theophil Mmbaga   +6 more
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Invasive Pneumococcal Disease 3 Years after Introduction of 10-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine, the Netherlands

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015
Three years after a 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine was replaced by a 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in the Netherlands, we observed a decrease in incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes 1,
Mirjam J. Knol, Gertjan H.J. Wagenvoort, Elisabeth A.M. Sanders, Karin Elberse, Bart J. Vlaminckx, Hester E. de Melker, Arie van der Ende   +6 more
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Multi-serotype pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage prevalence in vaccine naïve Nepalese children, assessed using molecular serotyping. [PDF]

, 2015
Invasive pneumococcal disease is one of the major causes of death in young children in resource poor countries. Nasopharyngeal carriage studies provide insight into the local prevalence of circulating pneumococcal serotypes.
Gurung, M, Kandasamy, Rama, Neelam Adhikari, David R Murdoch, Katherine A Gould, Murdoch, DR, Thapa, A, Adhikari, N, Hinds, Jason, Shrestha, S, Gould, Katherine A., Anushil Thapa, Kandasamy, R ; https://orcid.org/, Waldron, Denise E., Stephen Thorson, Rama Kandasamy, Waldron, DE, Gould, KA, Ndimah, S, Thorson, Stephen, Kelly, Dominic F., Shrijana Shrestha, Thorson, S, Dominic F Kelly, Meeru Gurung, Thapa, Anushil, Andrew J Pollard, Murdoch, David R., Ndimah, Susan, Shrestha, Shrijana, Denise E Waldron, Hinds, J, Pollard, Andrew J., Kandasamy, R, Adhikari, Neelam, Jason Hinds, Kelly, DF, Gurung, Meeru, Pollard, AJ, Pollard, Andrew, Susan Ndimah   +40 more
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Invasive pneumococcal infection due to serotype 15A after the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine implementation in Turkey

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2017
Invasive pneumococcal infections among children are a serious public health problem in many countries, including Turkey. Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine has been included in Turkey's National Immunization Programme since 2009.
Ayşe Büyükcam, Hüseyin Güdücüoğlu, Kamuran Karaman, Venhar Gürbüz, Emil Aliyev, Ateş Kara, Mehmet Ceyhan   +6 more
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