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Effectiveness of a 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine for the prevention of pneumococcal pneumonia in the elderly with chronic respiratory diseases: a case–control study of a single center

BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23) in preventing pneumococcal pneumonia has been controversial. METHODS: To evaluate the effectiveness of the PPSV23 in elderly outpatients with chronic respiratory diseases, we carried out a case–control study,...

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Autores principales: Masuda, Toshihiro, Nakatani, Eiji, Shirai, Toshihiro, Akamatsu, Taisuke, Tamura, Kanami, Takahashi, Shingo, Tanaka, Yuko, Watanabe, Hirofumi, Endo, Yoshinari, Suzuki, Takahito, Saigusa, Mika, Yamamoto, Akito, Morita, Satoru, Sato, Yoko, Asada, Kazuhiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8051051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33863300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-021-01491-w