Despite vaccine, public should not get complacent about pneumococcal disease
Thursday, June 5, 2008 - 11:42
in Health & Medicine
Although the childhood pneumococcal conjugate vaccine has been a boon in reducing the incidence invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), the public and the medical community must not get complacent, as non-vaccine strains, some resistant to antibiotics, are on the rise, say scientists at a meeting in Boston...
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