The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has updated its vaccination recommendations for immunocompetent adults aged 65 years or older to extend the interval between receipt of the Prevnar 13 and Pneumovax 23...
Invasive pneumococcal disease rates have decreased substantially in children and adults since 2010, when use of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in children became the standard of care. Adults 65 years of age...
Scientists from the University of Adelaide’s Research Centre for Infectious Diseases have developed a single vaccination approach to simultaneously combat influenza and pneumococcal infections, the world’s...
If mitigating racial disparities in those who contract pneumococcal diseases, such as meningitis and pneumonia, is a top public health priority, then recommending that all adults get a pneumococcal vaccine at age 50...
Pneumococcus bacteria—the culprit behind pneumonia, meningitis, bronchitis and ear infections—causes nearly 15 million infections each year, and is a leading cause of death in children under 5. Although vaccines...
A vaccine against pneumococcal disease, which is a major killer of children in Africa, has cut the disease rate by more than half, new research has found. The study, involving Otago researcher Professor Philip Hill...
Three new reports, including a population study in Africa and two meta-analyses, suggest that pneumococcal vaccines provide moderate protection against invasive pneumococcal pneumonia in children and adults but only...
New data shows that South Africa’s expensive pneumococcal vaccine roll out has cut childhood hospitalisations due to meningitis, pneumonia and rotavirus by 70 percent in just five years, according to Minister of Health...
What’s good for the kids is good for grandma and grandpa, too, federal health officials have decided. A vaccine that has been successful in stemming pneumonia in children (and the adults in their lives) is being pushed...
A survey of serogroup 6 Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from children in China has identified no antibiotic-resistant clones, leading the authors to speculate that the isolates may be under antibiotic selective...