title: Are persons with asthma at increased risk of pneumococcal infections, and can we prevent them?
authors.affiliation: Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Institute of Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn. Electronic address: tina.hartert@Vanderbilt.Edu.
authors.forename: Tina V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Hartert
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001249:Asthma / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008910:Minnesota / Q000453:epidemiology; D011018:Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors