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University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences
Pediatric vaccine effectively prevents pneumococcal meningitis
January 27th, 2009
A standard pediatric vaccine used to prevent several common types of life-threatening infections also effectively reduced the rates of another disease, pneumococcal meningitis, in children and adults, according to a multi-center study led by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The study, published in the Jan. 15 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine and based on a detailed review of pneumococcal meningitis cases, also noted an increase in strains of pneumococcal meningitis not covered by the vaccine and those resistant to antibiotics. An often deadly disease, pneumococcal meningitis is an infection in the brain and spinal cord membranes caused by the...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-01-27)
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