title: [Invasive community-acquired infections in children].
abstract: The study group consisted of 180 patients who had 186 community-acquired blood-culture positive infections during 2007-June 2013. Three of them died of meningitis caused by S. pneumoniae or N. meningitidis. A ten-valent conjugated pneumococcal vaccine was introduced in the Finnish National Vaccine Program in 2010. After that the incidence of invasive pneumococcal infections decreased markedly. The numbers of resistant S. pneumoniae appeared to decrease slightly, as did also hospitalization due to pneumonia in age group 0 to 2 years. No evidence for serotype replacement was found. The situation requires constant monitoring as the time passes, since the introduction of vaccination is quite recent.
authors.forename: Samuli
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jenu
authors.forename: Leena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Simons
authors.forename: Anu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pätäri-Sampo
authors.forename: Maija
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Toropainen
authors.forename: Harri
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Saxén
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011008:Pneumococcal Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D022242:Pneumococcal Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D022242:Pneumococcal Vaccines