Comparative incidence dynamics and serotypes of meningitis, bacteremic pneumonia and other-IPD in young children in the PCV era: Insights from Israeli surveillance studies

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
8943967	Vaccine	2018	8 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Following PCV7/PCV13 introduction, rates of episodes caused by VT13 were substantially reduced in all 3 groups. However, differences in age distribution, serotype replacement and specific serotype decrease suggest different pathogenesis and host susceptibility between the 3 entities.

Keywords

PCV13 PCV7 NIP IRR IPD National Immunization Program Invasive pneumococcal disease Dynamics Pneumonia confidence interval Cerebrospinal fluid CSF incidence rate ratio Surveillance PCV یا Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine Pneumococcal conjugated vaccine polymerase chain reaction PCR Children

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Comparative incidence dynamics and serotypes of meningitis, bacteremic pneumonia and other-IPD in young children in the PCV era: Insights from Israeli surveillance studies

Authors

Shalom Ben-Shimol, Noga Givon-Lavi, Galia Grisaru-Soen, Orli Megged, David Greenberg, Ron Dagan, On behalf of the Israel Bacteremia and Meningitis Active Surveillance Group On behalf of the Israel Bacteremia and Meningitis Active Surveillance Group,