Vaccines for other neonatal infections: pneumococcal disease: a major global health problem of young children.
Provided the high vaccine costs for pneumococcal conjugate vaccines can be addressed for the poorest countries, neonatal PCV immunization offers the hope of decreasing the significant morbidity that occurs in these vulnerable populations.
Richmond
Peter
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University of WA School of Pediatrics and Child Health, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, GPO Box D184, Perth WA 6840, Australia. peterr@ichr.uwa.edu.au
D006801:Humans; D007114:Immunization; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011008:Pneumococcal Infections / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D022242:Pneumococcal Vaccines / Q000276:immunology*; D018074:Vaccines, Conjugate / Q000276:immunology
D022242:Pneumococcal Vaccines; D018074:Vaccines, Conjugate