Pneumococcal Disease Vaccines
Studies from Wyeth update current data on pneumococcal disease vaccines
Published in Vaccine Weekly, May 9th, 2007
Fresh data on pneumococcal disease are presented in the report "Brief review of the clinical effectiveness of PREVENAR against otitis media. Pre-licensure trials in Finnish and US infants demonstrated that PREVENAR was associated, respectively, with a 6% (95% CI, -4% to 16%) and an 8.9% (95% CI, 5.8-11.8%) overall reduction in clinical AOM incidence. Long-term follow-up of these cohorts revealed that there was an approximately 10-50% vaccine efficacy against recurrent otitis media or for the prevention of tympanostomy tube placement," researchers in France report.
"In surveillance reports from the USA that followed infants with serious AOM, generalized PREVENAR...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2007-05-09)
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