Pneumococcal Disease

Pneumococcal Disease
The bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae, also known as pneumococcus, is the cause of acute bacterial infections, such as pneumonia, bloodstream infections, meningitis, and middle ear infections.

Pneumococcal disease - immunisation
Pneumococcal immunisation is recommended for young children, the elderly and those with a serious underlying medical condition. These people are more likely to become seriously ill or die from this disease.

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Pneumococcal disease
Professor Brian Duerden, CBE, explains how pneumococcal disease can cause pneumonia and other invasive infections. He describes the effects of the disease on older people and children, and what you can do to prevent it.

Pneumococcal disease is dangerous and deadly.
All forms of pneumococcal disease can be serious, even deadly, but sepsis and meningitis are the most serious.

Pneumococcal disease
Pneumococcal disease is a potentially life-threatening illness caused by infection with a type of bacteria called Streptococcus pneumoniae.

What Is Pneumococcal Disease?
Pneumococcal disease is an infection caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae . It can lead to:
Pneumonia
Bacteremia (infection of the blood)
Middle ear infection
Bacterial meningitis ...

Pneumococcal disease occurs worldwide. Crowded settings or situations with close, prolonged contact with young children may increase the risk of contracting pneumococcal disease while travelling.
Clinical Presentation ...

Pneumococcal Disease: So Many Treatments Posted May 2011
Parent tells true story of how pneumococcal disease sickened her children and affected her family ...

Pneumococcal disease is far more likely than the vaccine to cause serious problems for people who are at high risk for it.
Mild side effects may include redness, pain, and swelling at the site of the shot for 1 to 2 days.

informed its customers that it was experiencing supply limitations of Prevnar, Pneumococcal 7-valent Conjugate Vaccine (Diphtheria CRM197 Protein), used in the prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease in infants and young children.

Vaccination: Vaccination (using nonviable vaccines) is indicated for pneumococcal disease (23-valent vaccine if the CD4 count is > 200/μL), influenza A (all patients annually), and hepatitis B and A (for patients at risk); ...

In addition, it's recommended for children between the ages of 2 and 5 who are at high risk of pneumococcal disease, including children who have chronic heart or lung disease or cancer.
Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV).

Younger people who are at risk of pneumococcal disease includes people with diabetes mellitus, heart and lung disease, alcoholism, liver disease, cerebrospinal fluid leaks, cochlear implants, those with a weakened immune system, ...

Pneumococcal pneumonia: Pneumococcal disease is an infection caused by a certain type of bacteria. The bacteria can infect the lungs (causing pneumonia), blood (causing bacteremia), or the covering of the brain (causing meningitis).

You can't get pneumococcal disease from the vaccine.
A single dose of the vaccine is recommended for most people over age 65, and a booster shot may be needed within seven years.

The pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine does not protect against pneumococcal diseases in children under age 2.

This vaccine protects against pneumococcal disease. This disease can cause:
Pneumonia. Pneumonia is a serious infection of the lungs that frequently leads to death in elderly adults.

Moreover, if your child has lupus, it’s important that she continue receiving vaccinations against things like tetanus, flu and pneumococcal disease, ...

The vaccine is specifically approved to help prevent invasive pneumococcal disease and otitis media.

Re-emerging diseases include: malaria, tuberculosis, cholera, pertussis, influenza, pneumococcal disease, gonorrhea, and others.

Routine vaccination protects against some types of bacterial meningitis, including those caused by one type of meningococcus (MenC), Haemophilus influenzae (Hib vaccine) and invasive pneumococcal disease (PCV vaccine).

Emerging diseases include: AIDS, SARS, Lyme disease, Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E. coli), hantavirus, and others.
Re-emerging diseases include: malaria, tuberculosis, cholera, pertussis, influenza, pneumococcal disease, gonorrhea, and others.

These include diphtheria, hib, rubella (German measles), mumps, pertussis (whooping cough), paralytic polio, smallpox, tetanus, hepatitis A and B, influenza (flu), pneumococcal disease and varicella (chickenpox).

Unfortunately, other strains have emerged since then to become the main sources of pneumococcal disease. Drug companies are in the process of developing new vaccines that will protect against these new strains.

against seven different strains of pneumococcal bacteria and it has been estimated that in the first two and a half years after this vaccine was introduced up to 959 cases of serious illness and 53 deaths caused by invasive pneumococcal disease were ...

Hepatitis A (recommended in selected states and in certain high-risk populations)
H. influenzae type B (a cause of meningitis)
Influenza (children aged 6 - 23 months)
Pneumococcal disease.
Meningococcal disease (for selected populations) ...

Pneumococcal vaccine - Recommended for all immunocompetent individuals who are age 65 years and older or otherwise at increased risk for pneumococcal disease.
Bone density measurement - The U.S.

This vaccine is not given to children younger than 6 months.
Haemophilus influenzae type b disease, or Hib disease.
Hepatitis A.
Hepatitis B.
Human papillomavirus (HPV).
Measles, mumps, and rubella.
Pneumococcal disease.
Polio.
Rotavirus.

Have a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt (a shunt to drain the fluid that surrounds the brain).
Are a child aged under five years who has previously had a pneumococcal disease such as pneumococcal meningitis or pneumococcal bacteraemia.

See also: Influenza, Prevention, Infections, Symptom, Fever