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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 31, Issue 16)SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. -- Almost all pediatricians have a high comfort level with basic information about meningitis, but they save the tricky questions for experts like Dr. George S. McCracken, who spoke at a pediatric...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 40, Issue 13)ATLANTA -- Introduction of the 7-valent pneumococcal conJugate vaccine led to a major decline in penicillin-nonsusceptible invasive pneumococcal disease among children younger than age 5 years, according to research...
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From:Practice Nurse (Vol. 26, Issue 9)THOUSANDS of pensioners have been unable to have the pneumococcal vaccination this year because high demand has resulted in supplies of the vaccine running out. Aventis Pasteur MD, manufacturers of Pneumovax, said...
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From:Formulary (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPneumococcal 13-valent Conjugate Vaccine [Diphtheria CRM197 Protein] (Prevnar 13, Pfizer) was approved as a single dose for use in adults aged 50 years and older as a new indication. Prevnar is indicated for the...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 108, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Vaccines represent the most important medical advance of the twentieth century. The time has passed when large numbers of children and adults suffered serious, life threatening illness from viruses...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 113, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedObjectives. The precise epidemiology of childhood pneumonia remains poorly defined. Accurate and prompt etiologic diagnosis is limited by inadequate clinical, radiologic, and laboratory diagnostic methods. The objective...
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From:Weekly Epidemiological Record (Vol. 87, Issue 14)In accordance with its mandate to provide guidance to Member States on health policy matters, WHO issues a series of regularly updated position papers on vaccines and combinations of vaccines against diseases that have...
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From:PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News (Vol. 614)Researchers from Japan claim to have the "first report" of a randomised trial demonstrating a "cost-saving effect" for pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV) in elderly Japanese patients. Additionally, they found that...
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From:PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News (Vol. 576)Wyeth's pneumococcal 7-valent CRM197 conjugate vaccine [Prevenar] has been added to Saudi Arabia's national immunisation programme (NIP). Oman has also included the vaccine as part of their NIP for 2009. There are now a...
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From:Diabetes Care (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRATIONALE FOR IMMUNIZATION -- The rationale for the use of influenza and pneumococcal vaccine in patients with diabetes is reviewed in the American Diabetes Association technical review "Use of Influenza and...
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From:Nursing Economics (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed* The morbidity and mortality associated with pneumococcal pneumonia can be prevented with access to vaccines and treatment. * The purpose of this quality improvement project was to examine how the utilization of the...
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From:Journal of Family Practice (Vol. 60, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedA / YES, if the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) series is given before 12 months of age. Vaccination before 12 months is associated with a statistically significant reduction in the incidence of both acute (AOM)...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe potential occurrence of disease outbreaks during the hajj season is of great concern due to extreme congestion in a confined space. This promotes the acquisition, spread and transmission of pathogenic microorganisms...
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From:Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy (Vol. 3, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): E David G McIntosh 1 Keywords: antibiotics; immunization; pathogenesis Overview of recent developments Pneumococcal meningitis is a severe, life-threatening infection which often leaves the...
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From:Expert Review of Vaccines (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): E David G McIntosh [[dagger]] 1 , Ralf R Reinert 2 Keywords : bacteremia; invasive pneumococcal disease; IPD; meningitis; pneumococcal conjugate vaccine; pneumococcus; serotypes; Streptococcus...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 41, Issue 20)FROM MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT Health care providers should take advantage of opportunities at all visits to give the supplemental dose of the new 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine to eligible...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 42, Issue 7)ATLANTA -- A large proportion of children apparently are not receiving the 13valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine as recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, surveillance data from the Centers...
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From:Formulary (Vol. 44, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed* Pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine (diphtheria CRM197 protein) (Prevnar 13, Wyeth) for the prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease and otitis media caused by the 13 serotypes included in the vaccine in...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 16, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedTo determine prevalence and genetic structures of new serotype 6D strains of pneumococci, we examined isolates from diverse clinical specimens in South Korea during 1991-2008. Fourteen serotype 6D strains accounted for...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The PCV13 immunization demonstration program began in October 2017 in Indonesia. The aim of this study is to assess the dynamic changes of pneumococcal serotype before and after PCV13 administration, with...