Paediatric vaccine effectively prevents pneumococcal meningitis
Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 09:49
in Health & Medicine
A standard paediatric vaccine used to prevent several common types of life-threatening infections also effectively reduced the rates of another disease, pneumococcal meningitis, in children and adults, according to a multi-centre study led by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The study, published in the 15 January issue of the New England Journal of Medicine and based on a detailed review of pneumococcal meningitis cases, also noted an increase in strains of pneumococcal meningitis not covered by the vaccine and those resistant to antibiotics...
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