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

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

At first, much the same. But inevitably, dangerous diseases would resurge in a country that isn’t prepared for them.

At the age of 7 1/2 months he had been hospitalized for bronchopneumonia and pneumococcal meningitis ... and symptoms far outweighed those of a more peripheral nature. In none of the children ...

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Eligible infants were those with fever (>38°C), influenza-like symptoms of sudden onset ... patients (54%), the most serious of which were meningitis in 1 infant (1%), pneumonia in 9 (6% ...