Effects of Vaccination on Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in South Africa

Invasive pneumococcal disease is an important cause of severe illness. In South Africa, a national program to vaccinate children with the conjugated pneumococcal vaccine resulted in a substantial decline in invasive pneumococcal disease countrywide, including in adults. The majority of deaths associ...

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Published in:	The New England journal of medicine Vol. 371; no. 20; pp. 1889 - 1899
Main Authors:	von Gottberg, Anne, de Gouveia, Linda, Tempia, Stefano, Quan, Vanessa, Meiring, Susan, von Mollendorf, Claire, Madhi, Shabir A, Zell, Elizabeth R, Verani, Jennifer R, O’Brien, Katherine L, Whitney, Cynthia G, Klugman, Keith P, Cohen, Cheryl
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Waltham, MA Massachusetts Medical Society 13.11.2014
Subjects:	Adult Age Bacterial diseases Biological and medical sciences Children Children & youth General aspects Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine HIV HIV Infections - complications Human bacterial diseases Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Immunization Incidence Infant Infants Infectious diseases Medical sciences Penicillin Resistance Pneumococcal Infections - epidemiology Pneumococcal Infections - microbiology Pneumococcal Infections - prevention & control Pneumococcal Vaccines - administration & dosage Pneumonia Population Surveillance Serogroup Serotypes South Africa - epidemiology Staphylococcal infections, streptococcal infections, pneumococcal infections Streptococcus infections Streptococcus pneumoniae - classification Vaccination Vaccines Vaccines, Conjugate South Africa Africa Infection Prevention Medicine Immunoprophylaxis Streptococcal infection Vaccination Bacteriosis Pneumococcal infection
ISSN:	0028-4793, 1533-4406, 1533-4406
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