Article
Recent advances in the epidemiology and prevention of Streptococcus pneumoniae infections
2020-05-07
Abstract excerpt
The introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) 7 and 13 into national childhood immunization programs in the US in 2000 and 2010, respectively, proved to be remarkably successful in reducing infant mortality due to invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), resulting in widespread uptake of these vaccines. Secondary herd protection of non-vaccinated adults against IPD has proven to be an additional public he...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 144aa867-940c-52ce-a400-a7760194d2b8
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.22341.1
