Effect of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on Pneumococcal Meningitis
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Effect of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on pneumococcal meningitis.
BACKGROUND Invasive pneumococcal disease declined among children and adults after the introduction of the pediatric heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) in 2000, but its effect on pneumococcal meningitis is unclear. METHODS We examined trends in pneumococcal meningitis from 1998 through 2005 using active, population-based surveillance data from eight sites in the United States. I...
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عنوان ژورنال: New England Journal of Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0028-4793,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa0800836