Publications by authors named "Liliana Castellar"
Introduction: Bacterial pneumonia and meningitis are vaccine-preventable diseases. Sentinel surveillance provides relevant information about their behavior.
Objective: To present the data from sentinel surveillance carried out at the Fundación HOMI, Fundación Hospital Pediátrico La Misericordia in 2016.
Emergence of serotype 19A (Spn19A) in the pediatric population in Bogotá, Colombia as the main cause of invasive pneumococcal disease after the introduction of PCV10.
Germán Camacho Moreno Luisa F Imbachi Aura L Leal Vivian M Moreno Jaime A Patiño Liliana P Castellar
Hum Vaccin Immunother
September 2020
Article Synopsis
- The introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) has significantly reduced the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), leading to a decrease in vaccine-associated serotypes, but has resulted in the emergence of non-vaccine serotypes like 19A.
- A study conducted on pediatric patients with IPD from 2008 to 2017 in Bogota examined cases related to the implementation of the PCV10 vaccine, focusing on various infections and analyzing demographic and clinical data.
- The prevalence of IPD caused by serotype 19A increased from 4.4% (2008-2011) to 32.4% (2014-2017), with pneumonia being the