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Pneumococci

Pneumococcal Disease: More Cases but Fewer Deaths

The vaccine given to children to immunize against serious pneumococcal disease does not offer full protection, reveals research from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, finding that the number of cases diagnosed has tripled over the past 50 ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions
Vaccine Made With Synthetic Gene Protects Against Pneumonia

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed an experimental vaccine that appears to protect against an increasingly common and particularly deadly form of pneumococcal pneumonia. Details of the new vaccine, which was tested in an ...More
February 22, 2011
Posted in News
New Pneumococcal Vaccine Approach is Successful in Early Tests

Pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) accounts for as much as 11 percent of mortality in young children worldwide. While successful vaccines like Prevnar exist, they are expensive and only work against specific pneumococcal strains, with the risk of becoming less ...More
February 17, 2011
Posted in News
New Treatment May Protect Against Pneumonia

Intranasal administration of the protein flagellin may activate innate immunity and protect against acute pneumonia say researchers from France. They report their findings in the October 2010 issue of the journal Infection and Immunity. Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major ...More
October 15, 2010
Posted in News
Dosing Schedule of Pneumococcal Vaccine Poses Increased Risk of Acquiring Multiresistant Strain

Infants who received heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination (PCV-7) at 2, 4, and 11 months were more likely than unvaccinated controls to have nasopharyngeal acquisition of pneumococcal serotype 19A, a leading cause of respiratory pneumococcal disease, according to ...More
September 7, 2010
Posted in News
Pneumococcal Bacteria Trigger Increase in Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

Introduction of the PCV-7 vaccine to prevent invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) has led to a shift in the types of bacteria causing hemolytic uremic syndrome, an important cause of acute kidney failure in children, reports a study in the August issue of the Pediatric ...More
August 3, 2010
Posted in News