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Further available immunization option to prevent pneumococcal disease

In their recent review, Charles Feldman and Ronald Anderson provide an overview of various clinical aspects of pneumococcal infections. We would like to complete this report by providing some additional information on a widely-used immunization option, which was not originally mentioned in the artic...

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Autores principales: Vojtek, Ivo, Hoet, Bernard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000Research 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4376167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25866621
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.5990.1
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description In their recent review, Charles Feldman and Ronald Anderson provide an overview of various clinical aspects of pneumococcal infections. We would like to complete this report by providing some additional information on a widely-used immunization option, which was not originally mentioned in the article. The protein D pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PHiD-CV) has been pre-approved by WHO and its impact is supported by real-life data from the regions of its use.
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spelling pubmed-43761672015-04-09 Further available immunization option to prevent pneumococcal disease Vojtek, Ivo Hoet, Bernard F1000Res Correspondence In their recent review, Charles Feldman and Ronald Anderson provide an overview of various clinical aspects of pneumococcal infections. We would like to complete this report by providing some additional information on a widely-used immunization option, which was not originally mentioned in the article. The protein D pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PHiD-CV) has been pre-approved by WHO and its impact is supported by real-life data from the regions of its use. F1000Research 2015-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4376167/ /pubmed/25866621 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.5990.1 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Vojtek I and Hoet B http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Data associated with the article are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero "No rights reserved" data waiver (CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4376167/
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