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New Vaccines for the Prevention of Pneumococcal Infections

open access: diamondEmerging Infectious Diseases, 1996
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of acute otitis media, pneumonia, bacteremia, and meningitis. Because in recent years antibiotic-resistant pneumococcal strains have been emerging throughout the world, vaccination against pneumococcal infections
Helena Käyhty, Juhani Eskola
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Pneumococcal infections and homelessness. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Prev Med Hyg, 2021
Objectif. To assess the prevalence of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage, the role of potential risk factors, and vaccination against invasive pneumococcal diseases (IPD) among sheltered homeless persons (HP) in Marseille, France. Methods. In 2015 2018, we enrolled 571 sheltered homeless males and 54 non-homeless controls.
Ly TDA   +4 more
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Pathogenesis of pneumococcal infection [PDF]

open access: bronzeJournal of Medical Microbiology, 2000
The pathogenesis of pneumococcal infection is a complex interplay between pneumococcal virulence determinants and the host immune response. Molecular studies have considerably advanced our knowledge and understanding of the precise structures and functions of the different determinants and their pathogenic roles. This review describes the mechanisms by
Stephen H. Gillespie   +1 more
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THE CHEMOSEROTHERAPY OF EXPERIMENTAL PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION [PDF]

open access: bronzeJournal of Experimental Medicine, 1915
1. A single small dose of ethylhydrocuprein (optochin base), which by itself has practically no protective effect against experimental pneumococcal infection in mice, is capable of increasing the threshold value of the type homologous antipneumococcus serum at least fifty times. 2. This effect is proportionately many times greater than a
H. F. Moore
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The prevention of pneumococcal infections. [PDF]

open access: yesClin Exp Vaccine Res, 2016
Streptococcus pneumoniae causes considerable number of diseases like pneumonia, bacteremia or sepsis, meningitis, otitis media, sinusitis, peritonitis, endocarditis, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, and soft tissue infection [1,2,3]. According to the Korean statistics of death, 12,021 people died of pneumonia during the year 2014, mortality is 23.7 per
Chang MS, Woo JH.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Incidence of Confirmed Influenza and Pneumococcal Infections and Vaccine Uptake Among Virologically Suppressed People Living with HIV [PDF]

open access: yesVaccines
Background/Objectives: Influenza and Streptococcus pneumoniae infections are common vaccine-preventable diseases to which people living with HIV (PLWH) may be more susceptible.
Edith Wolder Ejlersen   +10 more
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The continuing problem of pneumococcal infection [PDF]

open access: bronzeJournal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 1988
A.J. Davies, Dinakantha S. Kumaratne
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