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Background
Pediatric recipients of hematopoietic stem cell and solid organ transplants are at increased risk of invasive pneumococcal infections (IPI). Data on IPI in this population are scarce. To our knowledge, this is the first study describing the epidemiology of IPI among pediatric transplant recipients in the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) era.
Methods
We identified transplant recipients...
Clin Microbiol Infect 2012; 18 (Suppl. 5): 15–24
AbstractSir Almroth Wright coordinated the first trial of a whole‐cell pneumococcal vaccine in South Africa from 1911 to 1912. Wright started a chain of events that delivered pneumococcal vaccines of increasing clinical and public‐health value, as medicine advanced from a vague understanding of the germ theory of disease to today’s rational vaccine...
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