[Vaccination against acute otitis media].
Acute otitis media (AOM) is the most frequent bacterial infection in childhood. Because of the high morbidity, the costs of AOM and growing concern about increasing resistance of pneumococci, the most common bacterial cause of AOM, prevention of AOM is important. Vaccination with the recently developed pneumococcal conjugate vaccines leads to a reduction in the number of AOM cases caused by the serotypes present in the vaccine, but the reduction in overall AOM incidence is below 10%. In particular the children with recurrent episodes of AOM may benefit more from these pneumococcal conjugate vaccines.
Veenhoven
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Spaarne Ziekenhuis, afd. Kindergeneeskunde, BR Haarlem.
van den Berg
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Schilder
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Dhooge
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Rijkers
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Sanders
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D000208:Acute Disease; D001428:Bacterial Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011008:Pneumococcal Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D055502:Secondary Prevention; D013296:Streptococcus pneumoniae / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D017778:Vaccines, Combined / Q000627:therapeutic use
D001428:Bacterial Vaccines; D017778:Vaccines, Combined