CHILDHOOD EMPYEMA: LIMITED POTENTIAL IMPACT OF 7-VALENT PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINE
- 1 June 2006
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
- Vol. 25 (6), 559-560
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.inf.0000219535.14201.1b
Abstract
During 2003-2004, locally presenting pleural empyema cases in children increased 3-fold. Antigen analysis of empyema fluid identified Streptococcus pneumoniae in 27 of 29 cases for whom samples were available and capsular polysaccharide type 1 in 18 of these. Use of a conjugate vaccine without serotype 1 antigen would have had limited impact on this morbidity in our region.Keywords
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