ADVISORY/Two Separate Studies Show Pneumococcal Vaccine is Extremely Effective for High Risk Native American Communities.Business Editors & Medical Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday (May 1) NOTE TO EDITORS: Multimedia Assets Available With This Story Include Logos, Text News Releases, Video --(BUSINESS WIRE) Findings from two separate studies presented during the Pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. Academic Societies conference, conclude that the new conjugated conjugated adj. Conjugate. estrogens, conjugated Warning - Hazardous drug! C.E.S. pneumococcal vaccine pneu·mo·coc·cal vaccine n. A vaccine containing purified capsular polysaccharide antigen from the most common infectious types of Streptococcus pneumoniae, used to immunize against pneumonococcal disease. , Prevnar, effectively protects Native American children from seven types of Streptococcus pneumoniae Streptococcus pneu·mo·ni·ae n. Pneumococcus. Streptococcus pneumoniae Microbiology A pathogenic streptococcus with 90 serotypes associated with pneumonia, bacteremia, meningitis Transmission Person to person Incidence bacteria. The studies, also show that the vaccine helps protect vaccinated children from becoming carriers of those seven types of bacteria. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?2791 This multimedia news story is for free and unrestricted use on your news information site (and for print or broadcast too). Visit http://www.newstream.com to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. video, audio, text, graphics, and photos. If you have any questions about the story, or about Newstream.com, please write to us at info@newstream.com. |
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