Public release date: 7-Sep-2010 – EEV: Requested Re-Post from the HRR site. - Infants who received heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination (PCV-7) at 2, 4, and 11 months were more likely than unvaccinated controls to have nasopharyngeal acquisition of pneumococcal serotype 19A - the increase in serotype 19A disease was associated in time with the widespread implementation of PCV-7 in routine infant immunization programs - A rapid increase in the presence of pneumococcal serotype 19A strains that are often multiresistant to antibiotics has been observed over the last decade - serotype 19A is now the leading More…![]()
