Reversal of Medical Practices
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serotypes and replacement by S aureus. However,while all staphylococcal pneumonia diagnoses significantly increased from the pre-PCV7 era to the early post-PCV7 era (P1⁄4.049), a nonsignificant decrease was observed in the late post-PCV7 era (P1⁄4.10), which includes the 2009-2010 influenza pandemic that was associated with an increase in secondary bacterial pneumonia. We also examined whether empyema diagnoses increased during this period, which has been noted in other studies in the last post-PCV7 era, but no statistically significant trend was evident in our data.
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