The impact of pneumococcal vaccination on pneumonia mortality among the elderly in Japan: a difference-in-difference study

BACKGROUND: It is plausible that the routine immunization among infants using pneumococcal conjugate vaccine 13 (PCV13) from 2013 and among the elderly using pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine 23 (PPV23) from 2014 contributed to reducing the pneumonia mortality among the elderly in Japan. The prese...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Jung, Sung-mok, Lee, Hyojung, Nishiura, Hiroshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2018
Materias:
Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6295158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30581675
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6085

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6295158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30581675
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6085

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