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HIV and pneumococcal disease

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2007
To describe the impact of highly active antiretroviral therapy on the burden of pneumococcal disease and advances in our understanding of the impact of HIV on this disease.Although highly active antiretroviral therapy has reduced the burden of pneumococcal disease among HIV-infected adults, these infections remain far more common than in HIV uninfected
Keith P, Klugman, Shabir A, Madhi, Charles, Feldman   +2 more
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Pneumococcal disease in childhood

Hospital Medicine, 2001
Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause of serious bacterial infections in children worldwide. Problems with antibiotic resistance have lead to changes in antibiotic policies for children with possible pneumococcal disease. Demonstration of the efficacy of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine has lead to consideration of its inclusion in routine ...
P V, Mohan, P T, Heath
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Pneumococcal Diseases

2003
The pneumococcus is now the most important bacterial pathogen causing pneumonia, meningitis, and otitis media. Traditional approaches to the diagnosis of Streptococcus pneumoniae as the etrologic agent causing these diseases include colony morphology, microscopy, optochin sensitivity, bile solubility, and inmunologic reaction with type-specific ...
A M, Smith, K P, Klugman
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Pneumococcal Disease after Pneumococcal Vaccination

New England Journal of Medicine, 1980
Trials of pneumococcal vaccine in healthy young adult populations suggest 75 to 95 per cent type-specific efficacy. Trials have not been done, however, in groups for which pneumococcal vaccine is currently recommended in the United States. To assess efficacy in the immunocompromised groups now receiving the vaccine, we compared serotypes of 35 isolates
C V, Broome, R R, Facklam, D W, Fraser
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Impact of pneumococcal vaccines on invasive pneumococcal disease in Taiwan

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2010
In Taiwan, the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23) and the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) have been available since January 2001 and October 2005, respectively. A hospital-based surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in a medical center was conducted from 2000 to 2008 to evaluate the epidemiologic changes ...
W-H, Liao, S-H, Lin, C-C, Lai, C-K, Tan, C-H, Liao, Y-T, Huang, C-Y, Wang, P-R, Hsueh   +7 more
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Pneumococcal disease

Practice Nursing, 2008
Jeannett Martin reviews the risks of pneumococcal disease and the indications for vaccination
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