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Pneumococcal vaccination of children
Seminars in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 2002Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most frequent cause of invasive bacterial infection in children younger than 2 years of age, reaching a peak incidence at 6 to 12 months of age. Pneumococci also cause many cases of pneumonia, sinusitis, and otitis media.
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Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 2001Pneumococcal infections account for a significant proportion of bacterial infections in infants and children. The growing threat from pneumococci resistant to penicillin and other antimicrobials has led to increased pressure for the development of an effective vaccine.
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Annals of Internal Medicine, 1986
Excerpt To the editor: In the January issue, Bolan and colleagues (1) describe their analysis of the distribution of pneumococcal serotypes isolated from blood and cerebrospinal fluid of vaccinated...
M, Aloizou, S, Lomasky, P D, Lief
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Excerpt To the editor: In the January issue, Bolan and colleagues (1) describe their analysis of the distribution of pneumococcal serotypes isolated from blood and cerebrospinal fluid of vaccinated...
M, Aloizou, S, Lomasky, P D, Lief
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Pneumococcal Vaccine: An Update
Pediatrics, 1999* Abbreviation: HIV = : human immunodeficiency virus Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause of invasive bacterial infection in children. In addition, the organism causes 30% to 50% of cases of acute otitis media; 24 million visits to pediatricians per year in the United States are referable to this diagnosis.1 It is also ...
R P, Wadwa, R D, Feigin
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Evaluation of Pneumococcal Vaccine
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1981To the Editor.— Regarding the article entitled "A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Immunization of Pneumococcal Pneumonia" by Patrick and Woolley (1981; 245:473), this analysis and one published previously 1 required estimation of a number of variables, including incidence of vaccine reactions and vaccine-type Streptococcus pneumoniae infections in vaccine ...
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Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines
1995The development of multivalent pneumococcal vaccines for the prevention of both systemic and noninvasive pneumococcal diseases in infants, older adults, and immunecompromised individuals has gained increasing importance over the last decade. The rising cost of medical care has renewed interest in prevention instead of cure for a disease and in many ...
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Pneumococcal Vaccine and Splenectomy
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1980To the Editor.— Regarding the answer in the QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS section by Theodore H. Spaet, MD (242:1413, 1979), I want to comment on the efficacy of pneumococcal vaccine in the spleenless patients. General studies and reports pertinent to the value of the vaccine in asplenic patients have been published.
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A Reassessment of Pneumococcal Vaccine
New England Journal of Medicine, 1984Six years have elapsed since a polyvalent vaccine of pneumococcal capsular polysaccharides was licensed in the United States for the second time in three decades1; two earlier such vaccines had bee...
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