pneumococcus
Pneumococcal meningitis can be fatal.
2-5 year olds who attend day care are at three times more likely to get invasive pneumococcal disease than children not in child care.
The findings of this study is that it is perfectly safe to give the pneumococcal vaccination.

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Examples of pneumococcal

pneumococcal
In the majority of patients (influenza vaccine, 98 % and pneumococcal vaccine, 94 %), vaccination was carried out in general practice.
All persons without spleen should be given pneumococcal vaccine.
It is estimated that pneumococcal disease is responsible for more than 1 million deaths in children under 5 years of age each year.
The level of influenza and pneumococcal vaccination varied with the level of deprivation.
Lack of utility of serotyping multiple colonies for detection of simultaneous nasopharyngeal carriage of different pneumococcal serotypes.
This indicates that many opportunities have been missed for pneumococcal vaccination during annual influenza vaccination.
Pneumococcal disease was highest in winter periods and coincided with influenza activity.
This may explain the lower levels of pneumococcal vaccine coverage in the elderly and other at-risk groups compared with influenza vaccine coverage.
Technical report : prevention of pneumococcal infections, including the use of pneumococcal conjugate and polysaccharide vaccines and antibiotics prophylaxis.
In all age groups, these serotypes\\groups accounted for over 80 % of all invasive pneumococcal isolates.
We also found that receipt of pneumococcal vaccine varied with level of deprivation in the area of residence.
We were able to check data on coverage of pneumococcal vaccine based on vaccine distribution statistics.
Update of federal activities regarding the use of pneumococcal vaccine.
Epidemiology of emerging pneumococcal drug resistance : implications for treatment and prevention.
Since influenza and pneumococcal vaccination has been reported to be effective, improved coverage of these vaccines among at-risk patients can yield significant public health benefits.
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