Pneumococcal Sentence Examples

There will also be a pneumococcal vaccination catch-up campaign for children aged less than two years.

These products include erythropoietin (EPO ), paclitaxel and a pneumococcal vaccine.

About 80% of people who get pneumococcal meningitis recover 2, about half of them without serious problems.

There are vaccines that can help protect against pneumococcal pneumonia - the most common form of pneumonia.

Despite appropriate efforts some patients remain unvaccinated, while true vaccine failures may also contribute to pneumococcal infection post splenectomy.

For example, a person suffering with pneumococcal pneumonia may have chest pain, cough, purulent sputum, and fever.

Much resource is put into increasing pneumococcal vaccination in at-risk groups.

The same trick was used to improve Hib vaccine ten years ago, and has recently been used for pneumococcal vaccine.

The impact of a pneumococcal vaccination program would be reduced if serotype replacement was significant.

Children with sickle cell disorders are at risk of developing severe infections, and penicillin is usually prescribed to prevent dangerous pneumococcal infections.

Vaccinations are an effective method of preventing certain disease such as polio, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, influenza, hepatitis b, and pneumococcal infections.

About 45,000 adults each year die of diseases related to hepatitis B, pneumococcal and influenza infections.

The children should also periodically receive pneumococcal pneumonia shots as recommended by their doctors.

For patients who have normal levels of immunoglobulins and normal antibody responses to vaccines, immunization with influenza and pneumococcal vaccines may be helpful.

Bacterial meningitis is either monococcal or pneumococcal, depending on the type of bacteria responsible for the infection.

Similarly, meningitis due to Streptococcus pneumoniae is also called pneumococcal meningitis.

According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), some 6,000 cases of pneumococcal meningitis are reported in the United States each year.

If a child has not been vaccinated, parents should talk to their doctor about the Hib and pneumococcal (Prevnar 7) vaccines.

Vaccines are available for both meningococcal and pneumococcal meningitis.

Depending on the type of bacteria responsible for the infection, bacterial meningitis is either classified as monococcal or pneumococcal.

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Oral amoxicillin or cephalosporins are often administered first in treating milder cases of pneumococcal pneumonia in children younger than age five, though they are not used in newborns.