Invasive pneumococcal disease: From a tertiary care hospital in the post-vaccine era

• Main Authors: Sevgen Tanır Basaranoglu (Author), Eda Karadag Oncel (Author), Kubra Aykac (Author), Yasemin Ozsurekci (Author), Ali Bülent Cengiz (Author), Ates Kara (Author), Mehmet Ceyhan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A breakthrough infection occurring with 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) in Turkey are previously described. A breakthrough infection is defined as IPD in a child who had received ≥ 1 PCV-7 or PCV-13 and for which the pneumococcal isolate was a vaccine serotype. During one year perio...