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Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2007 Acute communitarian bacterial meningitis and AIDS are prevalent infectious disease in Brazil. The objective of this study was to evaluate the frequency of acute communitarian bacterial meningitis in AIDS patients, the clinical and cerebrospinal fluid ...
Sérgio M. de Almeida +5 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023 HIV-infected patients are at particular risk for invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). We describe cases of IPD in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and find associated risk factors for infection and death.
Roxana Flores Mamani +11 more
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Antibiotics, 2016 Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) is an important pathogen responsible for acute invasive and non-invasive infections such as meningitis, sepsis and otitis media, being the major cause of community-acquired pneumonia. The fight against pneumococcus
Beatriz Maestro, Jesús M. Sanz
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THE DISINFECTION OF PNEUMOCOCCUS CARRIERS [PDF]
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1918 Recent studies on the epidemiology of lobar pneumonia by Dochez and Avery, 1 Stillman, 2 and Sydenstricker and Sutton 3 have shown, in a considerable proportion of cases, that this disease arises by infection from without, because of the entrance into the upper air passages of virulent pneumococci of the fixed serologic types, contracted from persons ...
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Rationale for Recommending Varicella Vaccination Into the Swedish National Immunisation Programme
Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim Under Swedish law, a vaccination may be included in the National Immunisation Programme (NIP) if it effectively prevents transmission in the population, is cost‐effective and aligns with ethical and humanitarian principles. The Public Health Agency of Sweden (PHAS) evaluated these criteria for introducing varicella vaccination. Methods The
Annika Ersson +2 more
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Journal of Global Health Reports, 2019 # Background The Cuban heptavalent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine will be introduced for children beginning in 2020. We estimated the burden of pneumococcal cases and deaths in children 1-59 months in 2015.
Nivaldo Linares-Pérez +4 more
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A Personalised Vaccination Program Based on Immune Reconstitution in Paediatric Cancer Survivors
Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aims Paediatric cancer survivors often experience treatment‐induced immunosuppression, requiring post‐treatment revaccination. However, immune recovery timelines vary, and current revaccination guidelines, largely based on data of varied quality derived from studies on acute‐lymphoblastic‐leukaemia (ALL), may not be applicable across all ...
Menucha Jurkowicz +17 more
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2015 By using a transcriptomic approach, we have elucidated the effect of Ni2+ on the global gene expression of S. pneumoniae D39 by identifying several differentially expressed genes/operons in the presence of a high extracellular concentration of Ni2+.
Irfan eManzoor +6 more
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