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In category NewsVaccine-preventable disease incidence of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in the Finnish invasive pneumococcal disease vaccine trial
Streptococcus pneumoniae, pneumococcus, causes a number of different clinical syndromes including invasive diseases like meningitis and sepsis/bacteraemia, pneumonia and upper respiratory infections like otitis media in children and sinusitis in adults. The disease burden is highest among infants and the elderly. Pneumococcus remains the number one killer in developing countries, especially due to the high disease burden of pneumonia, but mortality […]