Pneumococcal Disease In Children
January 12, 2009 by tim · Leave a Comment
In follow up to our discussion of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines yesterday, we thought readers would benefit from a brief review of the diseases that these vaccines are designed to prevent.
Clinical Presentations
Streptococcus pneumoniae causes acute bacterial infections. Also referred to as the pneumococcus bacteria, it was first isolated by Pasteur in 1881. Prior [...]