Reduction of Nasopharyngeal Carriage of Pneumococci during the Second Year of Life by a Heptavalent Conjugate Pneumococcal Vaccine

Dagan, R.; Melamed, Rimma; Muallem, M.; Piglansky, Lolita; Greenberg, David; Abramson, Oren; M. Mendelman, Paul; R. Bohidar, N.; Yagupsky, Pablo

doi:10.1093/infdis/174.6.1271

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Reduction of Nasopharyngeal Carriage of Pneumococci during the Second Year of Life by a Heptavalent Conjugate Pneumococcal Vaccine

Published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases • Dec 1, 1996

Authors:

R. Dagan

Rimma Melamed

M. Muallem

Abstract

Children 12-18 months old were randomized to receive one dose of a conjugate heptavalent pneumococcal vaccine, two doses of the same vaccine, or one dose of a 23-valent native polysaccharide vaccine. Before immunization, pneumococci included in the conjugate vaccine were isolated from 24% of the chi...

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Carriage

Medicine

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

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