Neighborhood-level disadvantages increase risk for invasive pneumococcal disease

CONCLUSIONS: ADI is a risk factor for IPD in younger adults. Community-level socioeconomic risk factors should be considered when developing prevention strategies such as increasing vaccine uptake in high risk population to reduce the disease burden of IPD.PMID:38340982 | DOI:10.1016/j.amjms.2024.02.002

Source: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences - February 10, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Daniel Minassian Liang Shan Chaoling Dong Arzoo N Charania Carlos J Orihuela Chao He Source Type: research