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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abd.2020.12.002 | DOI Listing |
Hum Vaccin Immunother
December 2025
Medical Specialities and Public Health Department, Area of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Rey Juan Carlos University, Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain.
Pneumococcal disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. From 2016 to 2022, 358,603 hospitalized patients were identified as having pneumococcal disease. The overall annual hospitalization rate was 108.
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January 2025
Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON.
Background: Availability of new vaccines for adults has increased interest in understanding Canada's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) burden in older adults and adults considered at high risk of severe infection.
Objective: To characterize the burden of RSV disease in Canada by joint analysis of the published literature and hospitalization data from a healthcare administrative database.
Methods: Electronic databases of published literature were searched to identify studies and systematic reviews reporting data on outpatient visits, hospitalizations, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and deaths associated with RSV infection in adults.
Foodborne Pathog Dis
January 2025
Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical University, Bengbu, China.
Listeriosis is a rare, life-threatening bacterial infection. Prompt, appropriate antibiotic treatment is essential to save lives. We aimed to investigate antibiotic selection and listeriosis knowledge among health care providers.
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November 2024
Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 41125 Modena, Italy.
The literature associating the spread of SARS-CoV-2 with the healthcare-related, geographical, and demographic characteristics of the territory is inconclusive and contrasting. We studied these relationships during winter 2021/2022 in South Tyrol, a multicultural Italian alpine province, performing an ecological study based on the 20 districts of the area. Data about incidence, hospitalization, and death between November 2021 and February 2022 were collected and associated to territorial variables via bivariate analyses and multivariate regressions.
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January 2025
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kampala, Uganda.
Pneumonia is the second leading cause of hospital admissions and deaths among children <5 years in Uganda. In 2014, Uganda officially rolled out the introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) into routine immunization schedule. However, little is known about the long-term impact of PCV on pneumonia admissions and deaths.
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