Sentences with phrase «from pneumococcal»

She was suffering from pneumococcal meningitis, but a junior doctor at the hospital wrongly diagnosed it as viral tonsillitis, and said she was well enough to go home.

This vaccine is given to protect babies from pneumococcal disease caused by bacteria.

Not exact matches

Experts say children who are regularly attending a daycare environment are at a greater risk of exposure to pneumococcal, and often benefit the most from the vaccine.

On what the value of human life in Ghana was, he recalled that it was reported recently that at least 85 people had died in Ghana from the outbreak of pneumococcal meningitis.

Four of the deaths were attributed to Pneumococcal meningitis while the other two deaths resulted from Meningococcal meningitis.

A team of officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) are expected to arrive in the country this week, to help the Health Ministry and the Ghana Health Service deal with the deadly pneumococcal meningitis.

Although the majority of childhood pneumococcal deaths occur in Africa, evidence of the potential impact of pneumococcal vaccines in routine use has largely been drawn from high - income countries.

Research from The University of Manchester has found a shortfall in the uptake of influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations among those diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), potentially increasing their infection risk.

Work undertaken during this period included demonstration of the efficacy of insecticide treated bed - nets in preventing death from malaria in African children and demonstration of the impact of Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines when deployed in sub-Saharan Africa.

Here we show that pneumococcal lineages from multiple populations each have a distinct combination of intermediate - frequency genes.

The research also shows that antimicrobial therapy, specifically targeted to abort this phase of intracellular replication, can prevent the occurrence of pneumococcal septicaemia, which is common in many patients suffering from pneumonia.

For example, death rates among Aboriginal people from pneumonia have dropped by 40 per cent since 1996, following the roll - out of pneumococcal vaccinations, The «Strong Babies, Strong Culture» maternal health program has shown that significant reductions in the number of low birth weight babies can occur within a matter of years.