Vaccination of Icelandic Children with the 10-Valent Pneumococcal Vaccine Leads to a Significant Herd Effect among Adults in Iceland

The introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) into childhood vaccination programs has reduced carriage of vaccine serotypes and pneumococcal disease. The 10-valent PCV was introduced in Iceland in 2011. The aim of this study was to determine PCV impact on the prevalence of serotypes, ge...

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Autores principales: Quirk, Sigríður J., Haraldsson, Gunnsteinn, Hjálmarsdóttir, Martha Á., van Tonder, Andries J., Hrafnkelsson, Birgir, Bentley, Stephen D., Haraldsson, Ásgeir, Erlendsdóttir, Helga, Brueggemann, Angela B., Kristinsson, Karl G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2019
Materias:
Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6440763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30651396
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01766-18

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