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 |
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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 . . . |
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ISSN: | 0028-4793 1533-4406 |
DOI: | 10.1056/NEJM199206043262317 |