Pneumococcal Vaccine for Olympic Athletes and Visitors to Spain

To the Editor: Thousands of athletes will gather in Barcelona this summer for the next Olympiad. Many people will travel to Spain to attend the Olympics, and many more will go to Seville for the world's fair, held from April 20 to October 12, 1992. Additional travelers will attend festivities h...

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Veröffentlicht in:The New England journal of medicine 1992-06, Vol.326 (23), p.1572-1572
Hauptverfasser: BARNETT, E. D, KLEIN, J. O, TEELE, D. W
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:To the Editor: Thousands of athletes will gather in Barcelona this summer for the next Olympiad. Many people will travel to Spain to attend the Olympics, and many more will go to Seville for the world's fair, held from April 20 to October 12, 1992. Additional travelers will attend festivities honoring Christopher Columbus. Spain has a high prevalence of multidrug-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae . Fenoll et al. 1 found the incidence of penicillin-resistant S. pneumoniae to be 44 percent in 1989. Of the 2197 resistant strains isolated over an 11-year period, 93 percent belonged to types included in the 23-valent . . .
ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJM199206043262317