Trends in incidence of pneumococcal disease before introduction of conjugate vaccine: South West England, 1996–2005

Introduction of pneumococcal conjugate and polysaccharide vaccines into the United Kingdom's routine immunization programmes is expected to change the epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). We have documented the epidemiology of IPD in an English region (South West) with high-qual...

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Veröffentlicht in:Epidemiology and infection 2008-08, Vol.136 (8), p.1096-1102
Hauptverfasser: IHEKWEAZU, C. A., DANCE, D. A. B., PEBODY, R., GEORGE, R. C., SMITH, M. D., WAIGHT, P., CHRISTENSEN, H., CARTWRIGHT, K. A. V., STUART, J. M.
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction of pneumococcal conjugate and polysaccharide vaccines into the United Kingdom's routine immunization programmes is expected to change the epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). We have documented the epidemiology of IPD in an English region (South West) with high-quality surveillance data before these programmes were established. We analysed data on isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae from blood and CSF between 1996 and 2005 from microbiology laboratories in the South West that were reported and/or referred for serotyping to the Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections. The mean annual incidence of IPD increased from 11·2/100 000 in 1996 to 13·6/100 000 in 2005 (P
ISSN:0950-2688
1469-4409
DOI:10.1017/S0950268807009715