Pregnant patients in their third trimester and postpartum women showed higher risk for IPD compared with nonpregnant patients.

While children under five, particularly those under two, are the most vulnerable, pneumococcal diseases also affect adults.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that adults ages 65 years or older receive the pneumococcal conjugate vaccination (PCV15 or PCV20). If you receive PCV15 ...

14 These children are at especially high risk of pneumococcal infection due to a multitude of risk factors, including crowding and malnutrition that increase transmission and severity of disease. 15 ...

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The study authors say the simplest explanation is that PCVs are preventing pneumococcal-viral coinfections ... reported late last week in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. For ...

Just one in four (25%) people at high risk of pneumococcal disease, an infection that causes pneumonia—children younger than 2, adults older than 64, and those with certain chronic health ...

Gould’s symptoms seemed uncannily similar to those of patients known to have this new disease, and a blood test confirmed the scientists’ hunch: Gould had the mutation. The NIH doctors reached ...