Sentences with phrase «of pneumococcal»

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.

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.

These findings support theoretical models of pneumococcal competition and antibiotic resistance.

Research sheds light on initial phase of infectious disease and potential for prevention of pneumococcal septicaemia

Pre-print: High - resolution analysis of the pneumococcal transcriptome under a wide range of infection - relevant conditions — Rieza Aprianto — bioRxiv

«As a result, we can extend beyond the 13 types of sugars, potentially providing universal coverage against bacteria that cause pneumonia, meningitis, sepsis and other types of pneumococcal disease.

The study represents the «most comprehensive» coverage of pneumococcal disease to date, researchers say.

«Our findings confirm the utmost importance of co-contribution of pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines in reduction of burden of severe diarrhea and respiratory diseases reduction, especially during winter, the season with peak hospitalization rates of young children,» said principal investigator, Ron Dagan, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at the Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel.

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.

«We have shown that HIV - infected and HIV - exposed children experience a disproportionate burden of pneumococcal disease.

Six people have been confirmed to have died of Pneumococcal and Meningococcal meningitis in the Ashanti region.

«I wish to say that we have confirmed one case of Pneumococcal meningitis in a 17 year - old boy on 22 January.

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.

Adults who are over the age of 65 are encouraged to have had two type of anti-pneumonia immunizations — one which protects against 13 strains of pneumococcal bacteria (PCV13) and one which protects against 23 types of pneumococcal bacteria (PPSV23).

Not exact matches

Across the provinces and territories, vaccination rates for preventable diseases like influenza, pertussis (whooping cough) and pneumococcal (pneumonia) infections are well below national immunization uptake targets of around 80 percent.

In fact, there are about 90 diseases related to pneumococcal disease, and most babies are vaccinated against 13 of them (known as the PV13 vaccine).

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.

It protects against pneumococcal bacteria, and the vaccine is administered through a series of four injections beginning at 2 months of age.

For example, the Hib vaccine has helped tremendously in reducing the number of ear infections in babies, and the pneumococcal vaccine can help to prevent them as well.

Find out how the pneumococcal vaccine protects young kids against some of the worst childhood diseases, including meningitis an...

The Hep B vaccine (or HBV) protects against the virus that causes hepatitis B; the DTaP vaccine protects against the viruses that cause diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough); the PCV (pneumococcal vaccine) protects against the cause of bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, and ear infections; the Hib vaccine protects against Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria (which can also cause bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, or epiglottitis); and the rotavirus oral vaccine protects against a virus that causes the stomach flu.

At about two months of age, your baby should receive the DtaP vaccine, the pneumococcal vaccine, the Hib vaccine, the polio vaccine and the rotovirus vaccine.

At about six months of age, your baby should receive third doses of the following vaccines: DTaP, Hib, pneumococcal and rotavirus.

Ensure your child gets the pneumococcal vaccine (if they are at least 2 months of age, and have not already had this shot).

They should also receive their first dose of haemophilus influenza and pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.

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

Authorities of the Ghana Health Service in the Eastern Region, have confirmed to Citi News the death of a 17 - year - old boy, killed by the fast spreading the Pneumococcal meningitis disease.

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.

The Senate President said this while addressing journalists at the National Assembly Clinic, where he led the Senate leadership to administer Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) and Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) on babies as part of activities to mark the World Immunization Day, in Abuja.

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.

Less than 5 per cent of the world's children are fully immunised when you add BCG (for tuberculosis), measles, rubella, polio, hepatitis B (hep B), Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines.

Supporters of the AMC concept say that it addresses an immediate problem by providing a reason for manufacturers to provide pneumococcal vaccines to needy populations.

Vaccination with the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine - 7 [PCV7 — a vaccine that covers 7 strains (serotypes) of Streptococcus pneumoniae] is linked to overall decreases in the rate of serious infections caused by this bacterium, such as pneumonia and meningitis, referred to as invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD)-RSB-, but small increases in IPD caused by serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae not covered by the vaccine (referred to as non-vaccine type IPD), according to a study published in PLOS Medicine this week.

The study, titled: Effects of Vaccination on Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in South Africa, published in the latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), compares IPD incidence after the introduction of PCV (post-introduction: 2011 and 2012) to incidence prior to its introduction (2005 - 2008), focusing on high - risk groups.

The majority of resistant strains of pneumococcus are of types which are included in the vaccine, for this reason, vaccine introduction in South Africa, has led to a substantial decline in antibiotic resistant invasive pneumococcal disease,» said Dr Cheryl Cohen, co-author of the paper, Clinical Epidemiologist at the NICD and senior lecturer in the School of Public Health at Wits.

«If we don't have an AMC, we're going to have lifesaving pneumococcal vaccines developed for rich countries but there's not going to be enough capacity to supply them to the poor countries,» says Orin Levine, executive director of PneumoADIP at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Although incidence of HIV among infants is decreasing in South Africa due to improved prevention of the mother - to - child HIV transmission and the use of anti-retrovirals, a large number of HIV - exposed yet uninfected children remain, for whom vaccination against pneumococcal disease may be of particular importance to ensuring reduced risk of life - threatening infections in childhood.

Dr Ben Brown, a GP who was also part of the study team, added: «Guidance on influenza and pneumococcal vaccination for RA patients is unclear, and payment to carry it out in primary care is variable.

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.

«There are already a number of successful vaccines that can prevent many cases of bacterial meningitis, including the Meningitis C, HIB and pneumococcal vaccines.

• Fifteen years after pneumococcal conjugate vaccines» first introduction globally in 2000 (the United States was first to implement the vaccine), five of the highest pneumonia burden countries (India, Indonesia, Chad, China and Somalia) are still not using the vaccine in their routine immunization programs.

His research over the last decade played an important role in assisting the World Health Organisation's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts in making recommendations on potentially life - saving childhood vaccines such as the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and the rotavirus vaccine.

Now, a new vaccine under development could deal another blow to the disease, lowering the number of deaths even further by targeting dozens of additional strains of S. pneumoniae, and anticipating future versions of the bacteria responsible for pneumococcal disease, which includes sepsis and meningitis.

Randomized clinical trial of a single versus a double dose of 13 - valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in adults 55 through 74 years of age previously vaccinated with 23 - valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine.

To assess the impact of maternal Abs on vaccine commonly administered in infancy, Jones et al. (131) examined the relationship between the concentration of Abs against pertussis, H. influenzae type B, tetanus toxoid, and pneumococcal Ags at birth and after primary immunization.

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.

Addressing these questions is particularly important for Streptococcus pneumoniae, a nasopharyngeal commensal and respiratory pathogen, because the changes in population structure associated with the recent introduction of partial - coverage vaccines have substantially reduced pneumococcal disease.

Fitting a multilocus NFDS model of post-vaccine population dynamics to three genomic datasets using Approximate Bayesian Computation generated reproducible estimates of the influence of NFDS on pneumococcal evolution, the strength of which varied between loci.

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

Introduction: In Latin America and the Caribbean, pneumococcal infections were estimated to account for 12,000 - 18,000 deaths, 327,000 cases of pneumonia, 4,000 cases of meningitis and 1,229 cases of sepsis each year in children under five years old.