Pneumococcal Infections
Ten-Year Surveillance of Pneumococcal Infections in Temuco, Chile: Implications for Vaccination Strategies
... 3 pneumococcal infections among children under 5 years of age was observed throughout the survey, although this serotype was a frequent cause of infection in all patients above 5 years of ...invasive ...
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Serotype 19A Is the Most Common Serotype Causing Invasive Pneumococcal Infections in Children
... invasive infections have decreased yearly from 2001 through 2004, to a nadir of 151 infections; the rate then increased from 2005 through ...invasive pneumococcal infection had an underlying con- ...
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Invasive pneumococcal infections among persons with and without underlying medical conditions: Implications for prevention strategies
... Although our estimates from national laboratory-based surveillance are representative of the entire population of Finland, the observed IPD incidence was low compared with reports from some other European countries ...
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Three-Year Multicenter Surveillance of Systemic Pneumococcal Infections in Children
... systemic pneumococcal infections occurred during the winter months, there was no ap- parent relationship between season of the year and antibiotic ...
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Performance of a Pneumolysin Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Diagnosis of Pneumococcal Infections
... serious pneumococcal diseases in ...detect pneumococcal urinary antigen in children, since detectable pneumococcal C polysaccharide is present in the urine of healthy infants with upper respiratory ...
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Policy Statement: Recommendations for the Prevention of Pneumococcal Infections, Including the Use of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (Prevnar), Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine, and Antibiotic Prophylaxis
... invasive pneumococcal infection among children attending out-of-home care are twofold to threefold higher than among other healthy children of the same age not enrolled in out-of-home care (defined as at least 4 ...
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Technical Report: Prevention of Pneumococcal Infections, Including the Use of Pneumococcal Conjugate and Polysaccharide Vaccines and Antibiotic Prophylaxis
... ABSTRACT. Pneumococcal infections are the most common invasive bacterial infections in children in the United ...invasive pneumococcal infections peaks in children younger than 2 years, ...
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Therapy for Children With Invasive Pneumococcal Infections
... sive pneumococcal infections who do not have men- ingitis and are not critically ill on admission, stan- dard antibiotic therapy that may include cefuroxime should continue to be ...
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Invasive Pneumococcal Infections in Denmark from 1995 to 1999: Epidemiology, Serotypes, and Resistance
... countries. Pneumococcal infections range from less-serious infections, such as upper respiratory tract infections and otitis media, to life-threatening infections, such as pneumonia, ...
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Penicillin-Resistant Systemic Pneumococcal Infections in Children: A Retrospective Case-Control Study
... confirmation.’6 Thus, the patients with infections due to S pneu- moniae relatively or fully resistant to penicillin were identified prospectively.. Resistance was confirmed by macro-bro[r] ...
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Decrease of Invasive Pneumococcal Infections in Children Among 8 Children’s Hospitals in the United States After the Introduction of the 7-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine
... in pneumococcal serotypes that are the most frequent cause of invasive infections in children, and these serotypes are components of the ...systemic infections that were nonsusceptible to penicillin ...
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Invasive pneumococcal infections in Vellore, India: clinical characteristics and distribution of serotypes
... the pneumococcal capsule and are serotype ...immunogenic pneumococcal vaccine in children under the age of 2 years was the seven- valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7), launched in ...
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Distribution of serotypes and antimicrobial resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains isolated in Brazil from 1988 to 1992
... pneumoniae strains identified in the present study indicate that the 23-valent pneumococcal vaccine would provide potential protection against pneumococcal infections in the locations th[r] ...
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Evolution of Streptococcus pneumoniaeSerotypes and Antibiotic Resistance in Spain: Update (1990 to 1996)
... The surveillance in Spain of Streptococcus pneumoniae iso- lated in hospitals from different regions of the country was initiated in our laboratory in 1979. In that year we found that 6% of the pneumococci isolated from ...
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Transplacental Transmission of Serotype-Specific Pneumococcal Antibodies in a Brazilian Population
... severe pneumococcal infections in children occurs in the first 6 months of life; however, immunization of infants with the existing polysaccharide vaccines is ...(IgG) pneumococcal antibodies in ...
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Pediatric Pneumococcal Bone and Joint Infections
... invasive pneumococcal infections were identi- fied prospectively between September 1, 1993 and August 31, 1996 from the eight children’s hospitals that comprise the PMPSSG: Texas Children’s Hospital, ...
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Decreased Streptococcus pneumoniae susceptibility to oral antibiotics among children in rural Vietnam: a community study
... of pneumococcal infections considering the high levels of antibiotic resistance? Clinicians may find it safe to choose susceptible antibiotics in empirical ...of pneumococcal pneu- monia among ...
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Evaluation of the Specificity of Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay and the Effect of Serum Adsorption Based on Standard Pneumococcal Serogroup- or Serotype-Specific Rabbit Antisera
... people. Pneumococcal infections range from mild upper respiratory tract diseases and otitis media to pneu- monia, bacteremia, and meningitis ...(4). Pneumococcal strains possess a polysaccharide ...
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Cloning of Minor Autolysin of Streptococcus Pneumoniae
... Background and Objective: Increased antibiotic resistant strains and inadequacy of current vaccines against pneumococcal infections necessitate the study of novel protein antigens. It seems that minor ...
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Age-Specific Immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgA to Pneumococcal Protein Antigens in a Population in Coastal Kenya
... conserved pneumococcal proteins—pneumolysin, pneumococcal sur- face adhesin A (PsaA), and pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA)—are currently being investigated as vac- cine ...
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