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Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Pneumococcal Disease
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for preventing pneumococcal disease.
Reviewed January 2012
7 Resources Found
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| Title: | Pneumococcal vaccine for asthma |
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| 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: | Aug 2010 |
| Title: | Injectable vaccines for preventing pneumococcal infection in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | There is evidence that vaccines can protect healthy persons against invasive disease (bacteraemia, meningitis) and some evidence for prevention of community acquired pneumonia but little is known about the effectiveness of the vaccine in persons with ch... |
| Date: | May 2010 |
| Title: | Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing pneumococcal infection in children with sickle cell disease |
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| 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: | Apr 2010 |
| Title: | Pneumococcal vaccines for children and adults with bronchiectasis |
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| 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: | Dec 2008 |
| Title: | Pneumococcal vaccines for sickle cell disease |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | People with sickle cell disease are particularly prone to pneumococcal infection, which may be fatal. Children aged up to 23 months are at high risk, but usual polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccines may not work in this age group. New conjugate pneumococc... |
| Date: | Sep 2008 |
| Title: | Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines for preventing otitis media |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Acute otitis media (AOM) is the infection of the middle ear and is one of the most common diseases in childhood. Infection with pneumococci (a type of bacterium) is a frequent cause of AOM. Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) aim to immunise young ch... |
| Date: | Nov 2007 |
| Title: | Vaccines for preventing pneumococcal infection in adults |
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| 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 |
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