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PLoS ONE, 2013 BackgroundPneumococcal pneumonia causes significant morbidity and mortality among adults. Given limitations of diagnostic tests for non-bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia, most studies report the incidence of bacteremic or invasive pneumococcal disease ...
Maria A Said +47 more
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Pneumococcal vaccination and chronic respiratory diseases
International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 2017 Patients with COPD and other chronic respiratory diseases are especially vulnerable to viral and bacterial pulmonary infections, which are major causes of exacerbations, hospitalization, disease progression, and mortality in COPD patients. Effective vaccines could reduce the burden of respiratory infections and acute exacerbations in COPD patients, but
F. Froes, N. Roche, F. Blasi
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Rare but not forgotten: A case of meningitis due to ceftriaxone-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae
IDCases, 2018 Despite the dramatic decrease in invasive pneumococcal disease since the widespread use of the first pneumococcal vaccine, invasive and resistant disease still occurs.
Naomi Hauser +3 more
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Easy Diagnosis of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011 Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) causes many cases of severe disease and death among children
Selva Jové, Laura +3 more
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Use and efficacy of pneumococcal vaccine in patients with Hodgkin disease [PDF]
, 1979 AM Levine +5 more
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Pneumococcal whole-cell and protein-based vaccines: changing the paradigm
Expert Review of Vaccines, 2017 Introduction: Epidemiologic evaluations of Streptococcus pneumoniae nasopharyngeal (NP) colonization and pneumococcal disease suggest that newer serotypes in future formulations of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) are needed and there may need to ...
Michael E. Pichichero
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Population-based estimates of the effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination in Australia
International Journal of Population Data Science, 2017 Objectives Australia’s Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) is one of only a handful of national immunisation registers world-wide. We have, for the first time, linked the ACIR to other health datasets to measure the real-world impact of Australia’s ...
Heather Gidding +6 more
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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 +6 more
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New Microbes and New Infections, 2015 Pneumococcal infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. The introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) has dramatically reduced the incidence of pneumococcal diseases. PCVs are not currently being used in
N. Ramdani-Bouguessa +13 more
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