Systematic Reviews of Preventative Treatments for Pneumococcal Disease

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for preventing pneumococcal disease.

Created November 2007

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Title:   Pneumococcal vaccines for sickle cell disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Pneumococcal bacteria are a common cause of infection, including pneumonia and meningitis, which can be life-threatening. People with sickle cell disease are particularly susceptible to pneumococcal infection. Infants under two years of age are particul...
Date:   Sep 2003
Title:   Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing pneumococcal infection in children with sickle cell disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People with sickle cell disease (SCD) are especially prone to respiratory infections and blood poisoning. These infections are often caused by pneumococcal bacteria. Infections occur partly due to the spleen not working correctly, but also because damag...
Date:   May 2002
Title:   Pneumococcal vaccines for children and adults with bronchiectasis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In many countries vaccination for the protection against infection of the bacteria pneumococcus, is part of the immunisation schedule for infants as well as, for people with bronchiectasis. In this review, our search for randomised control trials that e...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Vaccines for preventing pneumococcal infection in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Streptococcus pneumoniae is responsible for illness and death in adults worldwide, usually from pneumonia and less often from invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). Vaccination (using pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV)) in different populations mig...
Date:   Sep 2007
Title:   Pneumococcal vaccines for preventing otitis media
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   When infected, the middle ear (space behind the eardrum) becomes blocked with fluid (acute otitis media - AOM). Pneumococci (a type of bacteria) may be a common cause of the infection causing AOM. Pneumococcal vaccines aim to immunise children against p...
Date:   Nov 2003
Title:   Pneumococcal vaccine for asthma
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Pneumonia is a serious illness for people who have asthma and pneumococcal vaccine has been studied to see if it reduces illness or death in those people. A thorough search for randomised controlled trials of pneumococcal vaccine in asthma has found onl...
Date:   Sep 2001
Title:   Injectable vaccines for preventing pneumococcal infection in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is strong evidence that vaccines can protect healthy persons against infection by the pneumococcus bacteria, but little is known about the effectiveness of the vaccine in persons with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The results from ...
Date:   Jul 2006
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