INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE WITH 7-VALENT PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINE
The article is devoted to one of the serious problems of the today's medicine - pneumococcal infection. The authors show its importance for public health in terms of its influence upon infant and child mortality and in validization. They provide a comparative characteristic of pneumococcal vacc...
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Union of pediatricians of Russia,
2009-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | The article is devoted to one of the serious problems of the today's medicine - pneumococcal infection. The authors show its importance for public health in terms of its influence upon infant and child mortality and in validization. They provide a comparative characteristic of pneumococcal vaccines used in the world. The article describes the efficiency and experience of immunizing children with a 7_valent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine in national programs that serve as a basis for recommendations on the prevention of pneumococcal infection given by the World Health Organization.Key words: pneumococcal infection, 7-valent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine, national immunization programs, children. |
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| Item Description: | 1727-5776 2500-3089 |