Otitis Media in Fully Vaccinated Preschool Children in the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Era

• Main Authors: Saurabh Talathi MD, MPH (Author), Neha Gupta MD (Author), Swathi Sethuram MD (Author), Shefali Khanna MD (Author), Yekaterina Sitnitskaya MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives. To evaluate the effect of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) on the burden of acute otitis media (AOM) and to evaluate the characteristics of AOM versus otitis media with effusion (OME) in the 2 PCV periods. Methods. A cohort of fully vaccinated children aged 18 to 60 months diagnose...