A team led by Ron Dagan, a pediatric
infectious disease specialist at Soroka University Medical Center in Beer - Sheva, Israel, wanted to know if a new pneumococcal vaccine based on tetanus toxoid would change infants» immune responses to the standard regimen of vaccines, including those for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP), and Haemophilus influenzae type B, which protects
against meningitis.
«Brushing
against a tree could easily leave one in your hair,» says Amesh Adalja, MD, an
infectious disease specialist at the University of Pittsburgh.