Healthcare providers, public health officials and policymakers need to develop a greater understanding of the serious health impact of pneumococcal disease in elderly adults. In addition to ...

Prevenar 13 is a mixture of the outer sugar coating (polysaccharide) from 13 different strains or serotypes of bacteria called Streptococcus pneumoniae ... higher than 39°C in babies or young ...

One of these – dubbed V116 – is a cocktail of 21 Streptococcus pneumoniae ... prevention of invasive disease and pneumonia caused by serotypes 3, 6A/C, 7F, 8, 9N, 10A, 11A, 12F, 15A, 15B ...

Last year, Pfizer made almost $6 billion from its Prevnar 13 vaccine, which covers 13 common serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae ... MAP technology combines polysaccharide and protein ...

Pneumonia is a Streptococcus pneumoniae (commonly known as "strep") bacterial infection, which is usually in your lungs. It can also be caused by the flu virus, the common cold virus, or a fungal ...

CRP (so named because it reacts with the C-polysaccharide protein of Streptococcus pneumoniae, a common bacterial cause of pneumonia) belongs to the pentraxin family of proteins, in which five ...

NA: Not applicable; PCV-7: 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine; PCV-13: 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine; PPV23: 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine.