Clinical features of adults with seven-valent-conjugated-vaccine-serotype pneumococcal pneumonia.

CONCLUSION: A significant proportion of adults continue to develop PCV7-serotype CAP in the era of childhood pneumococcal conjugate vaccination. These adults are more likely to have stroke and dementia as underlying co-morbid illnesses, and have a higher 30-day mortality. A combination of pneumococcal transmission factors, host factors and pneumococcal serotype specific characteristics are likely to explain these findings.
PMID: 24508039 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Vaccine - February 6, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Rodrigo C, Bewick T, Sheppard C, Greenwood S, Trotter C, Slack M, George R, Lim WS Tags: Vaccine Source Type: research