Sentences with word «pneumococcal»

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.

Varieties of S. pneumoniae not covered by current immunizations are responsible for a small portion — for example, 7 to 10 percent among U.S. children — of pneumonia, meningitis and other cases of pneumococcal disease.

«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.

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

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.

A conjugate pneumococcal vaccination program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in an urban setting initially achieved poor uptake.

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

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.

The authors noted that there was a significant drop in in - hospital mortality associated with pneumococcal meningitis after 2005.

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.

I believed them and went on to get Pneumococcal and Hib vaccines for my baby since he was at the right time for them.

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.

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

• Certified to administer influenza and pneumococcal shots to adults over the age of 18.

Levine says an injection that worked on nine to 13 pneumococcal strains would protect against 75 to 80 percent of cases worldwide.

It is estimated that between 20 and 40 percent of ear infections are caused by pneumococcal bacteria, and that it is the leading cause of bacterial meningitis.

Vaccinate: Ask your pediatrician about pneumococcal, flu, and meningitis vaccines.

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.

«As with most pneumococcal infections, it should be appreciated that localized nonlethal infections are much more common than the rapidly lethal presentations,» says Swords.

«Influenza A potentiates pneumococcal co-infection: New details emerge.»

The researchers then infected younger and older mice with the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae, which causes so - called pneumococcal pneumonia.

The countries pledged the monies to create what amounts to an artificial market for the vaccines to provide incentive for pharmaceutical companies to introduce next - generation pneumococcal injections more rapidly, which could then be shipped to impoverished countries.

However, two recent publications from South Africa have demonstrated PCVs to be effective in preventing pneumococcal disease among South African children, in conditions of routine vaccine use.

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.

He says companies might also devote more research and money into preparing pneumococcal vaccines that protect more people in the developing world.

«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.

Pneumococcal trafficking across the blood - brain barrier: molecular analysis of a novel bi-directional pathway.

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.

This is an image of a cluster of pneumococcal cells replicating.

Coverage for the Shingles vaccine and certain Pneumococcal vaccines which are not currently covered by the Act, is also needed.

• 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.

- A beneficial mutation which provides resistance to several diseases such as invasive pneumococcal disease, bacteremia, malaria, and tuberculosis.