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Pneumococcal Infections and Pneumococcal Vaccine: An Update
Infection Control, 1982AbstractPneumococcal pneumonia continues to be an important disease in terms of prevalence, morbidity and mortality. With the discovery of penicillin and its wide clinical use, the overall mortality of pneumococcal pneumonia has been significantly reduced, but problems remain.
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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 ...
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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 Vaccination in Diabetes
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1981To the Editor.— The COMMENTARY by James M. Moss, MD (1980;243:2301), entitled "Pneumococcus Infection in Diabetes Mellitus: Is This a Justification for Immunization?" concluded that diabetes is not a valid indication for pneumococcal vaccination because excess risk for development of the disease among diabetics has not been established. I do not think
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Correction: Pneumococcal Vaccine and Pneumococcal Pneumonia
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1988Excerpt To the Editor:Sims and colleagues made the following statement in their article on pneumococcal vaccine (1): Studies of sufficient statistical power have consistently shown the efficacy of ...
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Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccines
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1989Pneumococcal infections are major causes of morbidity and mortality in children throughout the world. For this reason and because of the increasingly frequent isolation of multiply resistant pneumococci of the serotypes most often causing infection in childhood, prophylactic immunization offers the best prospect of reducing the incidence of such ...
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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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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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