Significant decline in pneumonia admission rate after the introduction of routine 2+1 dose schedule heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) in children under 5 years of age in Kielce, Poland

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 787-792

  Patrzalek M ^a   Albrecht, P ^b   Sobczynski, M ^c  

^a Children's Hospital   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; HEPTAVALENT PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL UTILIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PNEUMONIA; POLAND; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; NEWBORN; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VACCINATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; POLAND; VACCINATION;

EID: 77955415187     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-010-0928-9     Document Type: Article

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