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Pneumococcal vaccination in elderly care facilities in Japan: A cross-sectional, web-based survey

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
This study evaluated pneumococcal vaccination status using evaluable data collected from 445 of 1,313 managing directors of elderly care facilities in Japan through an online survey (September 5, 2022-November 25, 2022; UMIN000048747); comparisons were ...
Youngju Kim, Hironori Taniguchi, Kotoba Okuyama, Junpei Kamimoto, Kenji Kawakami   +4 more
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Heightened Willingness toward Pneumococcal Vaccination in the Elderly Population in Shenzhen, China: A Cross-Sectional Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Vaccines, 2021
Background: Elderly population is considered at high risk for pneumococcal diseases. The pneumococcal vaccine coverage presents extremely low among elderly people in China.
Minyi Zhang, Hongbiao Chen, Fei Wu, Qiushuang Li, Qihui Lin, He Cao, Xiaofeng Zhou, Zihao Gu, Qing Chen   +8 more
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Polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccines

BMJ, 2002
Infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) is a leading cause of illness in young children and of illness and death in elderly people and people with immune deficiencies and chronic illness. Pneumococcus causes a spectrum of disease: infections of the upper respiratory tract, otitis media, invasive infections such as bacteraemia and ...
Tom, Jefferson, Vittorio, Demicheli
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Pneumococcal Disease: Global Disease Prevention Strategies with a Focus on the Challenges in Iraq

International Journal of General Medicine, 2023
Ali Al-Jumaili,1 Haider N Dawood,2 Delan Ikram,3 Ali Al-Jabban3 1Pediatric Department, Central Pediatric Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq; 2Internal Medicine Department, Al-Imamain Al-Kadhimin Medical City, Baghdad, Iraq; 3Medical Department, Pfizer ...
Al-Jumaili A, Dawood HN, Ikram D, Al-Jabban A   +3 more
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Effect of influenza and pneumococcal vaccines in elderly persons in years of low influenza activity

Virology Journal, 2008
Background The present prospective study was conducted from 2003–2005, among all individuals 65 years and older in Uppsala County, a region with 300 000 inhabitants situated close to the Stockholm urban area. The objective of this study was to assess the
Sylvan Staffan PE, Pauksen Karlis, Christenson Brith   +2 more
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Broad protective immune responses elicited by bacterium-like particle-based intranasal pneumococcal particle vaccine displaying PspA2 and PspA4 fragments

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2019
Streptococcus pneumoniae is an infectious pathogen mainly infecting host bodies through the respiratory system. An effective pneumococcal vaccine would be targeted to the mucosa and provide not only protection against invasive infection but also against ...
Jingcai Lu, Jieshi Guo, Dandan Wang, Jinfei Yu, Tiejun Gu, Chunlai Jiang, Wei Kong, Yongge Wu   +7 more
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Analysis of pneumococcal vaccination status and its influencing factors among young and middle-aged populations: an online survey

Zhongguo gonggong weisheng
ObjectiveTo understand the pneumococcal vaccination status and its influencing factors among young and middle-aged populations, and provide reference for promoting pneumococcal vaccination.
Ziying CHEN, Sijia ZHOU, Xin JIANG, Wen LIU, Yuhang MA, Kai WANG, Zhixiang DAI, Shuhan TANG, Chengxi ZHENG, Jianli HU, Zhihang PENG   +10 more
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The potential role of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in reducing acute respiratory inflammation in community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia

Journal of Biomedical Science, 2020
Background Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) reduces both invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and other pneumococcal infections worldwide. We investigated the impact of stepwise implementation of childhood PCV programs on the prevalence of ...
Ching-Fen Shen, Shih-Min Wang, Hsin Chi, Yi-Chuan Huang, Li-Min Huang, Yhu-Chering Huang, Hsiao-Chuan Lin, Yu-Huai Ho, Chao A. Hsiung, Ching-Chuan Liu, Taiwan Pediatric Infectious Disease Alliance   +10 more
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The direct and indirect effects of the pneumococcal conjugated vaccine on carriage rates in children aged younger than 5 years in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review

Einstein (São Paulo)
Objective To demonstrate the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage status in children younger than 5 years in Latin America and the Caribbean. Methods A systematic literature review was carried out on the direct
Stefany Martins Silva, Izabella Caroline Gebrim Rodrigues, Rodrigo da Silva Santos, Yves Mauro Fernandes Ternes   +3 more
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Pneumococcal pneumonia and carriage in Africa before and after introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, 2000–2019: protocol for systematic review

BMJ Open, 2019
Introduction Africa harbours a high burden of pneumococcal disease, with associated high mortality rates. Despite 34 countries introducing the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, which reduces the risk of pneumococcal carriage (a prerequisite for disease) of
Neil French, Dean Everett, Newton L. Kalata, Tinashe K. Nyazika, Todd D. Swarthout, Robert S. Heyderman, Stephen B. Gordon, Kondwani C. Jambo   +7 more
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