Hospitalizations after a decade of pneumococcal vaccination [1]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 369, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 1662-1663

  Siemieniuk, Reed A ^a   Weeraratne, Anushka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

DRUG MONITORING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; NOTE; PNEUMONIA; STATISTICS;

HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 84886288588     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1310477     Document Type: Letter

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