Despite Vaccine, Public Should Not Get Complacent About Pneumococcal Disease
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - 08:21
in Health & Medicine
Although the childhood pneumococcal conjugate vaccine has been a boon in reducing the incidence invasive pneumococcal disease, the public and the medical community must not get complacent, as nonvaccine strains, some resistant to antibiotics, are on the rise.
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